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Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$39k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$455kEducation$412kPhilanthropy$200kInternational$160kHuman Services$40k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$39,395
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE$39,395
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 (FY18–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $120k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$701k · 5 repeat orgs$566k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +174% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$701k
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+174%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • TB
    THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $259k · revenue +91%
  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $217k · revenue +174% · 29% of their budget
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $160k · revenue +354%

Funded once

  • DR
    DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -2%
  • RA
    RESPECT ABILITY
    one grant, 2021 · $53k
  • TA
    THE AURELIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +20%
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
Valley Center for the Blind

To support, train, and employ people who are blind or low vision and increase their opportunities to lead an independent and fulfilling life.

Health
2
Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis

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.

Health
3
Braille Institute of America Inc

To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)

Human Services
4
Earle Baum Center of the Blind Inc

Our mission is to create hope and opportunities for people impacted by sight loss to embrace and enrich their personal, social, and economic lives.

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5
A Shared Vision Partners in Pediatric Blindness and Visual Imp

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…

Health
6
Blindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc

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…

Health
7
Ccri Inc

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…

—
8
Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
10
Dallas Services

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.

—
11
Occupational Development Center Inc

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…

Employment
12
Beyond Blindness

Beyond blindness empowers children with visual impairments and other disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Blind Childrens Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $258,865 · EducationTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANYSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE: $217,435 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTEOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $37,500 · EducationOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $25,000 · EducationDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN…THE AURELIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AURELIA FOUNDATIONRESPECT ABILITY: $52,798 · OtherRESPECT ABILITYIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…VISUALLY IMPAIRED SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $40,000 · OtherVISUALLY IMPAIRED SCHO…SEE WELL TO LEARN: $35,000 · OtherSEE WELL TO LEARNDisability Community Resource Center: $25,000 · OtherDisability Community R…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…USC Keck Schoool of Medicine Roski: $19,997 · OtherUSC Keck Schoool of Me…+1 more: $1,080 · OtherEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FO…Wayfinder Family Services: $40,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family …Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $30,000 · Health
Education$538,800Philanthropy$250,000Other$248,875Human Services$200,000Health$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $258,865 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EYE INSTITUTE: $217,435 over 3y, 29% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AURELIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…California Community …Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH13.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert A Fox Family Charitable Foundation 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 17 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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