· Private foundation
Fox Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $495k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Senior PharmAssist Inc | $40,000 |
| Durham Technical Community College Foundation Inc | $37,500 |
| Families Moving Forward | $35,000 |
| Durham Literacy Center | $30,000 |
| Duke University | $30,000 |
| Duke University | $30,000 |
| The Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley Inc dba Eno R | $25,000 |
| Urban Ministries of Durham Inc | $25,000 |
| American Dance Festival Inc | $25,000 |
| Housing for New Hope | $25,000 |
| Durham Arts Council Inc | $23,000 |
| El Futuro | $20,000 |
| The Hill Center Inc dba Hill Learning Center | $20,000 |
| Museum of Life and Science | $20,000 |
| Museum of Durham History | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $256k · revenue +1%- DADURHAM ACADEMY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $228k · revenue +16%
DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $133k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY FOR DUKE PEDIATRIC BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $40k
- NUNCSU UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC FOR ARTS NC STATE CRAFTS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $20k
THE HILL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +30%
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.
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
Help Durham residents love neighbors.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Stepup partners with adults to transform their lives through training in life and employment skills.
To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
We are a community partnership of educators, business, government, youth-serving nonprofits and young people mobilized to achieve a shared vision that all of durham's youth will complete high school and a post-secondary credential and…
Durham central park is an exciting downtown destination that offers a venue for cultural activities and is part of a 24-hour, authentic, walkable, neighborhood for arts, recreation and locally owned businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Student U and the most unlike its peers is Bull City Woodshop. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 49 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds VOICES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds BULL CITY WOODSHOP ↗
- Who funds Latino Educational Achievement Partnership ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · The Forest At Duke Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Truist 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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