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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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$102kReligion$60kEducation$24kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$6kAnimals$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$18,957
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
William Cynthia Fox Family Foundati$18,957
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Shoes That Fit: $1k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$163k · 11 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$163k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+12%

Still filing today

55%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $12k · revenue +38%
  • OL
    ONWARD LEADERSHIP TRAINING
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • IS
    INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY
    2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • PO
    Phoenix One Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -84% · 30% of their budget
  • LR
    Living Room Ministries Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +32%
  • TV
    THE VETERANS CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
For Veterans Sake Foundation

For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…

Health
2
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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3
Blessings From the Sky Living

Room board for mental patients vets with PTSD

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4
Furever Friends Rescue

Adoption services for orphaned pets

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5
Friends of Orange Countys Homeless Pets

Friends of Orange County's Homeless Pets (FOCHP) is a licensed 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to make homeless and unwanted pets more adoptable and provide them the opportunity to find lifelong families. This mission…

Animals
6
I Am the Rescue Ranch

To rescue animals and train them to be used as service animals. they are cared for and trained in comfort, companion , service or therapy animals.

Animals
7
Risen From the Ashes

Animal rescue, rehabilitation, and rehom

Animals
8
Operation Freedom Paws

Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and individuals with disabilities to restore their freedom to live life.

Public Benefit
9
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
10
Gone-to-the-Dogs Rescue Inc

To rescue pets in danger of euthanization at the highest kill shelters in kern, san bernardino, los angeles, orange, and riverside counties. by promoting adoption, we hope to reduce the pet overpopulation in southern california.

Animals
11
Scdrinc

Rescue dogs that would otherwise be killed in shelters

Animals
12
Leave No Paws Behind Inc

Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is K9S for Warriors Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Upland Animal Shelter Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEVENS HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $62,500 · OtherSTEVENS HOPE FOR CHILDRENHILLSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherHILLSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $28,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWilliam Cynthia Fox Family Foundati: $18,957 · OtherWilliam Cynthia Fox Family Foundati+17 more: $20,350 · Other+17 morePhoenix One Foundation: $20,000 · EducationPhoenix On…BRIGHT PROSPECT: $2,500 · EducationBRIGHT PRO…ONWARD LEADERSHIP TRAINING: $10,000 · ReligionLiving Room Ministries International: $5,760 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $11,850 · Youth DevelopmentORANGE COUNTY BIRD OF PREY CENTER: $650 · Youth DevelopmentINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBE PERFECT FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 · HealthTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,500 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,500 · AnimalsFriends of Upland Animal Shelter Inc: $350 · Animals
Other$161,207Education$22,500Religion$15,760Youth Development$12,500Philanthropy$10,000Health$6,500Animals$4,350

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 budgetSTEVENS HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $62,500 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetPhoenix One Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $11,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONWARD LEADERSHIP TRAINING: $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBE PERFECT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Room Ministries International: $5,760 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VETERANS CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROUTT COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMPASSION PHYSICAL THERAPY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LET IT BE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGODS PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY BIRD OF PREY CENTER: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Upland Animal Shelter Inc: $350 over 2y, 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.

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.

Sempra FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sempra FoundationCA12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 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%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to The Fox Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fox Family 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 33 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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