· Private foundation
Fossil Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUEST ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| MEDHA LEARNING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AFRICAN VISIONARY FUND | $50,000 |
| AFRICAN VISIONARY FUND | $50,000 |
| MEDHA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ARRAY EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| GREENCHECK INC | $25,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 66% of grant dollars ($4.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($2.1M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 34% of all-years giving ($2.1M)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Fossil Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 26%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY3× · 2021–2023 · $400k · revenue +66%
- BTBIG THOUGHT5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +35%
- GIGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- KBKING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STA (AFRICAN VISIONARY FUND)one grant, 2022 · $300k
- KBKing Baudouin Foundation United Staone grant, 2023 · $300k
- SHSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +89%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Children growing up in historically marginalized and disenfranchised communities lack access to a broad spectrum of resources and opportunities, and attend schools that are not equipped to meet their needs. To address this, TFA's mission…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Nudge Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends International Inc ↗
- Who funds RESONATE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds Medha Corp ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM WETHRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GRIPTAPE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM CAMPUS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LEILA JANAH FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Skoll Fund · New Schools Fund · Gates Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fossil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fossil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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