· Private foundation
Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $6,780 |
| NORTH COUNTY PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL | $3,390 |
| CASA DE AMISTAD | $3,390 |
| MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO | $3,390 |
| SAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND | $3,390 |
| CLASSICS 4 KIDS | $3,390 |
| THE ROUSTABOUTS THEATRE COMPANY | $3,390 |
| WRITE OUT LOUD | $3,390 |
| SAN DIEGO COUNCIL ON LITERACY | $3,390 |
| LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER | $3,390 |
| AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC | $3,390 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $3,390 |
| MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,390 |
| OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY | $3,390 |
| LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $3,390 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
133 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2026, 63 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
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 FY2026, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY5× · 2021–2026 · $27k · revenue +74%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO5× · 2021–2026 · $20k · revenue +12%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC5× · 2021–2026 · $18k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- STSHELTER TO SOLDIER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +45%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%- TATHIRD AVE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…
To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
How this is measured
159 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. 159 of the 206 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CURA SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Opera Neo ↗
- Who funds GREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern California Immigration Project ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds READING LEGACIES ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Culture Shock Dance Troupe Inc ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Fern Street Community Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds UNSCRIPTED LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds WRITE OUT LOUD ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Grossmont Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pratt Memorial Fund · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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