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Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE | $39,395 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $200k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +174% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY2× · 2019–2020 · $259k · revenue +91%
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2022 · $217k · revenue +174% · 29% of their budget
- ECEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $160k · revenue +354%
Funded once
- DRDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -2%
- RARESPECT ABILITYone grant, 2021 · $53k
- TATHE AURELIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.
The mission of Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments is to help children who are blind or visually impaired reach their full potential through family-centeredm specialized family support.
To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)
Our mission is to create hope and opportunities for people impacted by sight loss to embrace and enrich their personal, social, and economic lives.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
The mission of CCRI is to enhance and enrich the lives and learning of people with disabilities. We help people overcome obstacles by offering unique community opportunities to children, adults, and families affected by disability. Our…
To empower people with disabilities so they can improve the quality of their lives and have the same access to opportunities as their nondisabled peers. By law, BCID is operated by a majority of people with disabilities, and most of our…
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.
To develop the skills of individuals with abilities by providing opportunities for suitable, sustainable employment that result in greater independence. Individuals with abilities to be engaged in valuable work, integrated into their…
Beyond blindness empowers children with visual impairments and other disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Blind Childrens Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AURELIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds Disability Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · California Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation 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.
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 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.
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