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Frieda C Fox Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$191kEducation$167kHuman Services$155kArts & Culture$78kCommunity Improvement$56kHousing & Shelter$50kPublic Benefit$38kFood & Nutrition$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
TIA CHUCHA'S CENTRAL CULTURAL$15,000
YOUNG STORYTELLERS$15,000
UNCOMMON GOOD$10,000
LAS FOTOS PROJECT$10,000
YOUTH MENTORING ACTION NETWORK$10,000
CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS$10,000
SAVING INNOCENCE$10,000
ONE GENERATION$10,000
LOS ANGELES ROOM BOARD$10,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INST$10,000
LOS ANGELES METRO DEBATE COMM$10,000
BUSINESS OF STUDENT SUCCESS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OLASTEO$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $2k → 8%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $5k → 14%OLASTEO: $5k → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $7k → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $1k → 14%TAKING THE REIGNS: $7k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $1k → 14%TAKING THE REIGNS: $1k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $30k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $15k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $10k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $23k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $10k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $3k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS: $1k → 14%THE VILLAGE FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 14%FOSTER NATION: $20k → 14%THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 14%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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$513k · 26 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
51

Total granted

$513k
$351k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+27%

Still filing today

77%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AB
    ACCESS BOOKS
    3× · 2019–2022 · $45k · revenue +48%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +157%
  • SI
    SAVING INNOCENCE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOUNDATON CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • FI
    FEAST Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +100%
  • FN
    FOSTER NATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -14%

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
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
2
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
3
Youth Policy Institute Inc

Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.

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4
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
5
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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6
Los Angeles Youth Network

Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…

Human Services
7
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
8
Inner-City Arts

Inner-city arts believes that the arts and creativity are transformational, and we envision a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values its cultivation in the education of young people. inner-city arts uses arts…

Arts & Culture
9
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
10
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
11
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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12
Hack the Hood Inc

Hack the Hood provides youth and communities of color with tech skill-building programs and career navigation support that are grounded in justice and ensure economic mobility.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Access Books. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr12%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%50%20–35yr10%9%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
16%
8,031/51,233

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

59 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. 59 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOS ANGELES ROOM BOARD — $30,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES ROOM BOARDLOS ANGELES METRO DEBATE COMM — $30,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES METRO DEBATE COMMFOUNDATON CENTER — $25,000 · OtherFOUNDATON CENTERLAS FOTOS PROJECT — $25,000 · OtherLAS FOTOS PROJECTONEGENERATION — $15,000 · OtherMY FRIEND'S PLACE — $15,000 · OtherGIRLS TODAY WOMEN TOMORROW — $12,500 · OtherSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES — $15,000 · Other+32 more — $175,378 · Other+32 moreUNCOMMON GOOD — $55,000 · Human ServicesUNCOMMON GOODCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS — $34,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOO…SAVING INNOCENCE INC — $31,000 · Human ServicesSAVING INNOCENCE INCFOSTER NATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER NATIONThe Village Family Services Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTAKING THE REINS — $9,000 · Human ServicesASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $8,000 · Human ServicesTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $8,000 · Human Services+6 more — $20,500 · Human Services+6 moreACCESS BOOKS — $45,000 · EducationACCESS BOOKSEMPOWHER INSTITUTE INC — $23,000 · EducationEMPOWHER INSTITUTE…The Leaders Readers Network — $20,000 · EducationThe Leaders Reader…READING TO KIDS — $20,000 · EducationREADING TO KIDSYOUTH MENTORING ACTION NETWORK — $13,050 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING AC…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $12,500 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS I…BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationBRIDGE BUILDERS FO…THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $8,000 · EducationYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentFoodWhat Incorporated — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION JUMP START — $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL NEST INC — $5,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentTIA CHUCHA'S CENTRO CULTURAL INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC — $6,450 · Arts & CultureARTS BRIDGING THE GAP — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ARLINGTON INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA YOUTH SHELTER — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFEAST Inc — $25,000 · Food & NutritionBROWN BAG LADY — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$372,878Human Services$195,500Education$151,550Youth Development$70,750Arts & Culture$47,450Housing & Shelter$40,000Food & Nutrition$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNCOMMON GOOD — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS BOOKS — $45,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS — $34,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEAST Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEMPOWHER INSTITUTE INC — $23,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network — $20,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetFOSTER NATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetREADING TO KIDS — $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSHIELDS FOR FAMILIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIA CHUCHA'S CENTRO CULTURAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONEGENERATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING ACTION NETWORK — $13,050 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS TODAY WOMEN TOMORROW — $12,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOODCRAFT RANGERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDREAM A WORLD EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCASA YOUTH SHELTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Village Family Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKING THE REINS — $9,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC — $6,450 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated — $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP MARIASTELLA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBROWN BAG LADY — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOLASTEO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetARTS BRIDGING THE GAP — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for Restorative Justice Works — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc — $3,128 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATRE ARLINGTON INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Police Foundation - Arlington Tx — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…The Crail-Johnson Fou…Liberty Hill Foundati…Carrie Estelle Doheny…Ccf Community Initiat…Elbridge Stuart Found…The California Wellne…
California Community FoundationCA49.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The California Wellness 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 Frieda C 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Frieda C Fox Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Frieda C Fox Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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