· Private foundation
Fox Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $440k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $877k
- $250k+1 grant · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $308,071 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION | $121,540 |
| MAYWOOD MISSION | $75,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY | $75,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $75,000 |
| DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO | $75,000 |
| FOUNDATION DINNERSSHELTER | $55,000 |
| LANCASTER FRESH MARKET INC | $50,000 |
| MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $50,000 |
| THE WILDS | $50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOME CHARITIES OF CENTRAL OHIO | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHEAST OHIO | $35,000 |
| OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +6%
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $771k · revenue +6%
- DADECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO7× · 2019–2025 · $403k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- THTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +160%
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +40%- TDTHE DAWES ARBORETUMone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -4%
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The columbus association of realtors is a local level, not-for-profit trade association. founded in 1908, columbus association of realtors is comprised of more than 9,100 real estate professionals engaged in residential sales and leasing,…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Fairfield County and the most unlike its peers is Forgotten 4-Paws. 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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 53 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 UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds THE FG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS CENTER OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYWOOD MISSION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FRESH MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds HARCUM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SE OHIO ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN 4-PAWS ↗
- Who funds George & Raymond Frank Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Park National Corporation Foundation · Columbus Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Fairfield County Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Cardinal Health 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 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 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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