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Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family 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.

$5k
Granted FY2023
12
Itemized grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
55%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$4k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$250
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$4k55%
FY202212$5k33%
FY202114$25kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$11kArts & Culture$11kPhilanthropy$5kRecreation & Sports$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kEducation$2kCivil Rights$750Food & Nutrition$515Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Relief Services$3,5003n/a
Kqed Inc$60030%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$51510%
St Josephs Indian School$4003n/a
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$35020%
Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc$25010%
Sacred Heart Nativity School$2501n/a
The Summit League$24520%
Red Cloud Indian School$2002n/a

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

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About Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation

How much does Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation give?
Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $4,365, out of $5,315 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (10%), Arts & Culture (9%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Catholic Relief Services ($4k), Kqed Inc ($600), Friends of the World Food Program Inc ($515).
Does Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation 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.
Where is Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation based?
Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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