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Fox Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$95k
Granted FY2023
34
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.

Health$239kEducation$75kHousing & Shelter$49kHuman Services$35kInternational$32kCrime & Legal$28kRecreation & Sports$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2023 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k30 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANBURY HOSPITAL & NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$15,000
THE YELLOW TULIP PROJECT$15,000
PREBLE STREET$14,000
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$10,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$5,000
MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES$3,130
THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND$3,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$3,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$2,250
PIETA$2,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$2,000
WAVENY CARE CENTER INC$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CONNECTICUT$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%PREBLE STREET: $14k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%PREBLE STREET: $14k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $8k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $8k → 7%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $2k → 7%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $2k → 7%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $1k → 7%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $1k → 7%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $1k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $250 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$502k · 40 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
24

Total granted

$502k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+22%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TY
    The Yellow Tulip Project
    5× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +281%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    4× · 2018–2023 · $44k · revenue +174%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    6× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BL
    BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -37%
  • TE
    THE EXPLORERS CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +137%
  • WA
    WATERAID AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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9
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bronx Letters Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportYouth Development ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr20%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%11%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr14%60%35–55yr20%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,390

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
41/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $60,200 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $60,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital FoundationThe Yellow Tulip Project — $55,000 · HealthThe Yellow Tulip ProjectDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc — $30,000 · HealthDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation IncWESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $15,198 · HealthWESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,500 · Health+9 more — $20,250 · Health+9 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $30,000 · EducationTrustees of Tuft…ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $28,500 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRS…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $10,500 · EducationMERCY LEARNING C…THE SUSAN FUND INC — $2,750 · EducationBRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION — $2,575 · Education+2 more — $700 · EducationPREBLE STREET — $44,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STRE…FURNITURE FRIENDS — $6,000 · Human ServicesFURNITURE F…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WAR…+2 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesMISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES — $12,800 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS…CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $6,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT F…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CONNECTICUT — $3,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONA…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY COSTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY — $3,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CA…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $6,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATI…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $5,000 · OtherUNITED SERVIC…THE EXPLORERS CLUB — $2,440 · Other+28 more — $17,771 · Other+28 moreIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $28,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $7,000 · Crime & LegalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $12,000 · InternationalHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,500 · InternationalWATERAID AMERICA INC — $2,000 · International+3 more — $1,500 · InternationalHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $18,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $100 · Recreation & Sports
Health$253,148Education$75,025Human Services$54,500Other$62,511Crime & Legal$35,000International$31,500Recreation & Sports$18,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $60,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project — $55,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $28,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $28,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $15,198 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS — $6,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUSAN FUND INC — $2,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION — $2,575 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB — $2,440 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE WOMEN'S LOBBY EDUCATION FUND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MACULA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAVENY CARE CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Smilow FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…The James & Mary Elle…Newman's Own Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Ibm International Fou…FjcMorgan Stanley Global…Maine Community Found…The Jane T Muhlethale…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Smilow Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Fjc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Jane T Muhlethaler Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fox Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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