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Shayle and Deanna Fox Family Foundation at a glance

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Shayle and Deanna Fox Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$550kCivil Rights$390kHealth$148kEducation$54kReligion$15kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$7kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH UNITED FUND$100,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE$2,000
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$1,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$1,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $1k → 14%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $1k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $1k → 14%GLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES: $100 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $500 → 14%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
CA
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
38

Total granted

$1.1M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+50%

Still filing today

42%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    7× · 2017–2025 · $473k · revenue +13%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +78%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HK
    HOLLAND KNIGHT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • YO
    YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +50%
  • WL
    WILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -82%
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
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc

The jewish federation of greater atlanta cares for, connects and strengthens our jewish community throughout greater atlanta, israel and the world.

Philanthropy
3
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
4
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc

The jewish federation of greater washington (federation) envisions a connected and vibrant jewish community that cares for each other, fosters jewish learning and journeys, embraces jewish peoplehood and israel, and acts as a force for…

Philanthropy
5
Association House of Chicago

Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…

Human Services
6
Jewish Child and Family Services

JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…

Human Services
7
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

The jewish federation of greater philadelphia mobilizes financial and volunteer resources to create a bright future for jewish people everywhere. the jewish federation cares for those in need, combats antisemitism and global crises, and…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Family Services of Greenwich

Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…

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9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
11
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
12
Institute of Medicine of Chicago

Mission - the institute of medicine of chicago is an independent non-profit organization of distinguished leaders in the health field who collaborate to improve the health of the public. drawing upon the expertise of a diverse membership…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation & Foundation of Northeast Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Loveland Foundation. 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

36 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. 36 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $473,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $73,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO+4 more: $5,750 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $175,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE: $127,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINETHE ARK: $20,000 · OtherAM SHALOM: $14,900 · Other+43 more: $51,300 · Other+43 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $185,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION L…+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $52,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Corporation: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $200 · Human ServicesDEBORAH'S PLACE: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,100 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthWellness House: $100 · HealthMARSHFIELD CLINIC INC: $100 · Health
Philanthropy$551,750Other$388,200Civil Rights$186,000Education$52,100Human Services$13,700Housing & Shelter$7,000Health$2,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $473,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $185,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $73,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI Grow Chicago NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellness House: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENCOE YOUTH SERVICES A CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds KESHET ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds I Grow Chicago NFP ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STRIDES FOR PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…Imc Chicago Charitabl…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…John D and Catherine …The Blackbaud Giving …AbbVie FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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