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Mary Ellen and Michael E Fox Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% 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
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $4,365, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $950 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$250
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIOSESE OF SAN JOSE$1,000
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM$515
SAN JOSE STATE JUDO$500
FRIENDS OF HUMAN RELATIONS$500
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$500
CRISTO REY SCHOOL$250
SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL$250
FRIENDS OF NOTRE DAME DE PARIS$250
KQED$200
University of Notre Dame$200
RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL$100
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$100
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 10 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$17k
$16k

Still filing today

30%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KI
    KQED INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $600 · revenue +4%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $350 · revenue +34%
  • TS
    THE SUMMIT LEAGUE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $245 · revenue +374%

Funded once

  • MC
    MONTALVO CENTER FOR THE ART
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MO
    Misc. Organized Charities
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTALVO CENTER FOR THE ART: $10,000 · OtherMONTALVO CENTER FOR THE ARTSAINT MARY'S CHURCH: $8,500 · OtherSAINT MARY'S CHURCHMisc. Organized Charities: $4,500 · OtherMisc. Organized CharitiesCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $3,500 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESDIOSESE OF SAN JOSE: $2,000 · OtherDIOSESE OF SAN JOSE+14 more: $3,945 · Other+14 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $3,800 · EducationUniversity of…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $350 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOA…SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL: $250 · EducationSACRED HEART …KQED INC: $600 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $515 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $250 · Philanthropy
Other$32,445Education$4,400Arts & Culture$600Human Services$515Philanthropy$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $3,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT LEAGUE: $245 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗

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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