How much does Henry J Fox Fund give?

Henry J Fox Fund reported 91 grants totaling $125,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Henry J Fox Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Civil Rights (10%), Health (8%).

Who are Henry J Fox Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Congregation Beth Israel ($21k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($18k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($16k).

Does Henry J Fox Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Henry J Fox Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Henry J Fox Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Hopewell Fund, McKesson Foundation Inc.

Where is Henry J Fox Fund based?

Henry J Fox Fund is based in MD.

Henry J Fox Fund

Henry J Fox Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry J Fox Fund

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.

$126k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$63kCivil Rights$33kHealth$27kReligion$25kCrime & Legal$23kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k90 grants · $114k
$10k–50k1 grant · $12k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$598k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$12,000
CWFA (CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA)	$5,000
AID-ARKANSAS IMMIGRANT DEFENSE	$5,000
CONTRA COSTA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$4,000
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL	$3,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
COMPASSION WORKS FOR ALL	$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREAT PLAINS	$2,000
INTERFAITH WORKSCOMMUNITY MINISTRIES	$2,000
ECOLOGY CNTR	$2,000
GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS	$2,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$383k · 85 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

85 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$383k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+7%

Still filing today

51%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsHealthCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +13%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +121%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +167%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $5k
WW
WHOLE WOMEN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE
one grant, 2022 · $3k
AA
AJC ARKANSAS JUSTICE COLLECTIVE
one grant, 2021 · $2k

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.

04Its field

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 Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Driftless Rivers National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 145 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/67

Grantees still filing

44/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$298,850Environment$56,375International$34,100Arts & Culture$24,400Animals$21,100Crime & Legal$18,000Health$16,600

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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY15.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · McKesson Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Impactassetsinc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry J Fox Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry J Fox Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home