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The 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$779kEducation$130kHuman Services$20kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$12,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION$100,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$40,000
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE YOUTH ORG$12,000
SACRED HEART SCHOOL$5,000
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FACTOR - H: $15k → 14%RESPOND INC: $5k → 12%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +280%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +35%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FH
    FACTOR H
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -12%
  • MF
    MPH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • NJ
    New Jersey Cure HD
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
The Huntington Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
3
Epilepsy Research Foundation

A supporting organization of the epilepsy foundation to facilitate efforts to develop innovative research

Philanthropy
4
Hoppys Hope to End Huntingtons Disease

Raise awareness and provide financial support to organizations dedicated to finding treatments, and ultimately, a cure for huntington's disease.

Health
5
Hereditary Neurological Disease Center

Provide diagnostic care and disease management to patients and their families dealing with huntingtons disease - no cost to patient or family

Health
6
PCDH19 Alliance

Our mission is to improve the lives of children and families affected by pcdh19 epilepsy. the pcdh19 alliance focuses on raising and directing funds to scientific research with the goal of finding better, more effective treatments and,…

Philanthropy
7
Hydrocephalus Association

Find a cure for hyrocephalus and improve the lives of those impacted. we will accomplish this by collaborating with patients, caregivers, researchers and industry, raising awareness, and funding innovative, high-impact research to prevent,…

Health
8
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
9
Hht Foundation

Hht foundation international, inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving individuals affected by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (hht). the organization provides information to patients, family members, and healthcare…

Community Improvement
10
American Epilepsy Society

The american epilepsy society promotes research and education for professionals dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of epilepsy.

Health
11
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
12
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute

Improve patient care and the health of our community through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Factor H. 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

11 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. 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $674,600 · HealthHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATIONHUNTINGTON STUDY GROUP LTD: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $26,500 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…SACRED HEART SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLSACRED HEART CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CHURCHHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE YOUTH ORG: $12,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEAS…MPH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMPH FOUNDATION+2 more: $11,000 · Other+2 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKI…FACTOR H: $15,000 · Human ServicesRESPOND INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPHILLY CURE HD INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Health$731,100Other$183,000Education$110,000Human Services$20,000Philanthropy$15,000

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 budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $674,600 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON STUDY GROUP LTD: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACTOR H: $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNJ CURE HD INC: $11,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRESPOND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON STUDY GROUP LTD ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FACTOR H ↗
  • Who funds PHILLY CURE HD INC ↗
  • Who funds NJ CURE HD INC ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds RESPOND INC ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fox Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fox Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Respond Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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