How much does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn give?

Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn reported 9 grants totaling $106,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (53%), Food & Nutrition (41%), Housing & Shelter (6%).

Who are Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc ($186k), Panhandle Paws of Hope ($88k), Haven Animal Care Inc ($60k).

Does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Texas, Xcel Energy Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn based?

Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$106k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $8,125
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 10; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $311k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

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

ReligionAnimalsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$106k	0%
FY2024	9	$90k	0%
FY2023	10	$80k	10%
FY2022	10	$80k	20%
FY2021	10	$65k	10%
FY2020	9	$65k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Animals$257kFood & Nutrition$199kHousing & Shelter$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc	$185,625	6	1%
Panhandle Paws of Hope	$87,688	6	16%
Haven Animal Care Inc	$60,000	6	7%
Morris Safe House Foundation	$33,687	6	7%
4 Legged Friends Lbk	$29,999	6	3%
Lubbock Open Door	$29,937	5	0%
South Plains SPCA	$16,875	3	3%
South Plains Food Bank Inc	$13,813	6	0%
806 K9s	$8,500	4	4%
Cherished Pets Animal Rescue	$3,000	2	n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Community Foundation of West TexasTX15.7× 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

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.

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About Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn

How much does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn give?: Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn reported 9 grants totaling $106,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (53%), Food & Nutrition (41%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc ($186k), Panhandle Paws of Hope ($88k), Haven Animal Care Inc ($60k).
Does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Texas, Xcel Energy Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn based?: Nelson & Debbie Fox Charitable Fdtn is based in TX.