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Fox Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k18 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER KIDS INC | $50,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF METRO DENVER | $50,000 |
| WE DON'T WASTE | $50,000 |
| GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WARREN VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $50,000 |
| WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN | $45,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $40,000 |
| GROW DAT YOUTH FARM | $40,000 |
| LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIG | $35,000 |
| COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE | $35,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA COLORADO | $35,000 |
| CENTER FOR WORK EDUC & EMPL | $30,000 |
| BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC | $30,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON SCHOOL | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DKDENVER KIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +33%
- GCGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $435k · revenue +54%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS9× · 2017–2025 · $395k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- KCKIPP Colorado Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +37%
- TCTHE CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -68%
- SPSTRIVE PREP-LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…
We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.
To support college students in innovative, affordable paths to in-demand careers and financial freedom.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Through high caliber professional development and hands-on learning in a prodigy enterprise, youth from low-income communities in denver build skills, social capital and understanding for success in the new economy.
Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Children's Home and the most unlike its peers is Horizons Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER ↗
- Who funds WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds GROW DAT YOUTH FARM ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Inner City Parish Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP Colorado Schools ↗
- Who funds RESCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Colorado · Adolph Coors Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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