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Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$362kEducation$314kYouth Development$280kHuman Services$128kFood & Nutrition$109kHousing & Shelter$108kReligion$71kRecreation & Sports$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$50,000
NISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$20,000
TUSCULUM COLLEGE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
GREENEVILLE THEATER GUILD$10,000
YMCA OF GREENE COUNTY$10,000
GREENEVILLE GREENE CO HISTORY$9,210
TABERNACLE MISSION SOUP KITCHEN$6,100
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY$5,000
GREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION$4,500
GREENE LOCAL EDU ADVANCE FDN$3,500
CANUP OF GREENE COUNTY$2,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NE TN$2,500
GIFTS FOR KIDS$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $7k → 12%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $5k → 12%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $5k → 12%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $4k → 12%ISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $3k → 12%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $3k → 12%GREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSN: $3k → 12%GREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSN: $3k → 12%GREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSN: $3k → 12%GREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSN: $2k → 12%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $5k → 17%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $5k → 17%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $5k → 17%GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $4k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 44 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+15%

Still filing today

25%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENE COUNTY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +2%
  • GC
    GREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +29%
  • GC
    GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENEVILLE-GREENE COUNTY COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • LT
    LITTLE THEATRE OF GREENEV
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Gayville Community Fire Department Inc

Provide fire & rescue services to the local and surrounding community

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Burkettsville Community Fire Depart

Fire and emergency response to granville twp.

Philanthropy
4
Welch Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Goldthwaite Volunteer Fire Departme

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Broadview Volunteer Fire Department

Community volunteer fire deparment

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Holston Valley Rescue Squad

Emergency medical services

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8
Timpson Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc

Medical First Responder Volunteer rural Department

—
9
Boonton Township Fire Departmentin

Local fire company

—
10
Sharps Chapel Volunteer Fire Dept

Fire and Rescue Services

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Bridgewater Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Service

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Greenleaf Volunteer Fire Department
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greene County; the most unlike its peers is Greene County Imagination Library. 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

17 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. 17 of the 62 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $260,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBNISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $180,000 · OtherNISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $82,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTABERNACLE MISSION SOUP KITCHEN INC: $64,600 · OtherTABERNACLE MISSION SOUP KITCHEN INCGREENEVILLE GREENE CO COM MINISTRIES: $55,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENE COUNTY: $48,655 · Other+42 more: $374,090 · Other+42 moreTUSCULUM UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationTUSCULUM UNIVERSITYGREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $39,500 · EducationGREENE COUNTY IMAGI…GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $38,500 · Human ServicesGifts for Kids Inc: $19,500 · Human ServicesGREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION: $9,500 · Human ServicesISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $6,500 · Human ServicesGREENEVILLE THEATRE GUILD: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $14,500 · HealthKARI'S HEART FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCOMCARE INC: $1,980 · HealthRural Resources: $9,500 · EnvironmentBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentDEBUSK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,129,845Education$264,500Human Services$74,000Arts & Culture$40,000Health$18,980Environment$9,500Youth Development$3,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTUSCULUM UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENE COUNTY: $48,655 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREENEVILLE THEATRE GUILD: $40,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetGREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $39,500 over 9y, 13% of budgetGREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY: $38,500 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCENTRA20040L BALLET THEATRE INC: $21,500 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetGifts for Kids Inc: $19,500 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetBALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRural Resources: $9,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION: $9,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAUGHLIN HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMCARE INC: $1,980 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREENE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GREENEVILLE THEATRE GUILD ↗
  • Who funds GREENE COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds GREENE COUNTY FIREWOOD MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRA20040L BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Gifts for Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rural Resources ↗
  • Who funds GREENE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Baileyton Community Chest ↗

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.

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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 Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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