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· Private foundation
NELSON & DEBBIE FOX CHARITABLE FDTN
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$90k
Granted FY2024
9
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Food & Nutrition$157kAnimals$153kReligion$20kOther$50k
02FY2024 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$7,312
Median grant
1
States reached
$426k
Total assets
Largest grants
- LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC$30,375
- PANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE$17,438
- HAVEN ANIMAL CARE SHELTER$11,250
- LUBBOCK OPEN DOOR$7,312
- MORRIS SAFE HOUSE FOUNDATION$7,312
- 4 LEGGED FRIENDS LBK$5,625
- SOUTH PLAINS SPCA$5,625
- SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK$2,813
- 806 K9S$2,250
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 16%. 91% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$380k · 13 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
0
Total granted
$380k
$0
Still filing today
62%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsFood & NutritionReligionOther
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
- LMLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +60%
- PPPANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +107%
- HAHAVEN ANIMAL CARE SHELTER5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +16%
Funded once
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
Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets
Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets is a placement and transport rescue that works with small town panhandle shelters to help animals who are at risk of euthanasia get to rescues where they are adopted and loved.Our volunteers work…
Animals
2
Lone Star Transport Dogs
Lone Star Transport Dogs is committed to saving the homeless, abused, and unwanted dogs in East Texas. LSTD rescues, rehabilitates, loves, and cares for Texas dogs until they are ready for adoption. Our dogs then make the journey to our…
Animals
3
Llano Animal Rescue
We work with the local animal control officer so that dogs are not euthanized. We provide proper vet care and spay neuter and adopt them to qualified homes. We also help low-income members of our community by giving them dog food and…
Animals
4
Second Chance Dog Rescue
Our mission at Second Chance Dog Rescue is to care for companion animals in need byoffering safe refuge, providing medical care (including sterilization) and facilitating adoptions.
Animals
5
Pets Without Partners
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Animals
6
Forgotten Dog League of Amarillo Inc
Rescuing the forgotten dogs off the street getting them fully vetted and finding homes.
Animals
7
Border Paws of the Rgv
Foster-based animal welfare organization focused on serving stray and neglected animals located in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas through spay/neuter, adoption placement, rescue partnership transfer via interstate transport
Animals
8
Luvin Pawz Rescue Incorporated
Luvin Paws Rescue Inc is a foster based rescue saving dogs from high kill shelters in Oklahoma. Luvin Paws Rescue Inc is an all volunteer organization committed to save animals from euthanasia and find future homes for all the homeless. We…
Animals
9
Love and Puppy Paws Dog Rescue
Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) is a 100% foster-based rescue that was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that…
Animals
10
Scroungy Dogs and Pretty Pups Rescue Inc
We rescue dogs and cats from high kill and high volume shelters, transport them to Colorado, house them in foster homes while we provide all required veterinary services, including spay/neuters, vaccines, dentals, any necessary surgeries,…
Animals
11
Cowtown Loves Animal Shelter Pets
We rescue lost, homeless and neglected cats and dogs.
Animals
12
Paws Pet Adoption of Plainview
Paws Pet Adoption adopts out/transfers pets to reduce the unwanted and stray animal population
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Plains Spca and the most unlike its peers is Lubbock Open Door. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Food & Nutrition$156,938Animals$153,375Other$50,125Religion$19,562
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Community Foundation of West TexasTX15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Texas · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organisation NELSON & DEBBIE FOX CHARITABLE FDTN 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 455368492 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn?
Find your warmest path to Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines