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The Foss 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.

$470k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 14
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$8.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Foss Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$470k23%
FY202214$902kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$812kRecreation & Sports$226kHuman Services$205kEducation$60kHousing & Shelter$20kReligion$20kAnimals$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
PA
CA
DE
DC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation$200,00010%
Back on My Feet$200,00022%
Patriot Figure Skating Club$25,5002n/a
Texas Health Resources Foundation$25,00020%
Guts Church Inc$20,0001n/a
Jay High School Dug Out Club$10,0001n/a
The City Lights Foundation of Oklahoma$10,00011%
Visiting Nurse Associations of America Inc$10,0002n/a
Children's Medical Center Foundation$10,00020%
Dallas Casa$10,00020%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Foss Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation$200,00010%
Back on My Feet$200,00022%
Patriot Figure Skating Club$25,5002n/a
Texas Health Resources Foundation$25,00020%
Guts Church Inc$20,0001n/a
Jay High School Dug Out Club$10,0001n/a
The City Lights Foundation of Oklahoma$10,00011%
Visiting Nurse Associations of America Inc$10,0002n/a
Children's Medical Center Foundation$10,00020%
Dallas Casa$10,00020%
Tzu Zoo Rescue$10,00022%
Shoes That Fit$5,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($837k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foss Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBack on My Feet: $200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe City Lights Foundation of Oklahoma: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Center Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Casa: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTzu Zoo Rescue: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetShoes That Fit: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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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 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 The Foss Family Foundation

How much does The Foss Family Foundation give?
The Foss Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $470,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Foss Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (11%), Recreation & Sports (3%), Human Services (3%).
Who are The Foss Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ($200k), Back on My Feet ($200k), Patriot Figure Skating Club ($26k).
Does The Foss Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foss Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Foss Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Foss Family Foundation based?
The Foss Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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