· Private foundation
Fox Rock 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORP DBA ZOO NEW ENGLAND | $25,000 |
| DOVE | $10,000 |
| QUIN IMPACT FUND | $10,000 |
| NORWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,497 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $5,700 |
| ROSIES PLACE | $5,000 |
| WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE RICKY KING FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| PLAY FOR PINK | $2,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| BAY COLONY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $1,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $518 |
| GO2 FOR LUNG CANCER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue ×15 · 28% of their budget
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +40%- AFARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC4× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE - ROB & KAREN HALE DAFone grant, 2017 · $1.6M
- RBRon Burton Training Village Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +50%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
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…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 163 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 NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE STARS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · GivenGain Foundation USA · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fox Rock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fox Rock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Shore Stars Inc: 54% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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