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The Wallace Fox Foundation at a glance

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The Wallace Fox 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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$490kArts & Culture$341kHealth$292kEducation$172kPhilanthropy$94kYouth Development$86kCivil Rights$45kPublic Benefit$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Rye Arts Center$20,500
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation$20,000
La Jolla Country Day School$20,000
Valley Hospital Foundation$11,000
Frontline Women's Fund formerly Donor Direct Action$10,000
The New Press$10,000
Coalition against Trafficking in Women (CATW)$5,000
Arts Westchester$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Patient Airlift Services: $1k → 7%At Home in Greenwich: $3k → 9%Share Our Space: $3k → 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

NH
IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
KY
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Wallace Fox Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 61%.

The Wallace Fox Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 20% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
28

Total granted

$1.4M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+31%

Still filing today

70%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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

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HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • TR
    THE RYE ARTS CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +29%
  • LJ
    LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +29%
  • FF
    FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • WE
    Womens Equal Justice Project
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -28%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
8
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 52 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)
39/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $315,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCeliac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center: $219,900 · OtherCeliac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical CenterSisterhood is Global Institute dba Donor Direct Action: $100,000 · OtherSisterhood is Global Institute dba Donor Direct ActionFrontline Women's Fund formerly Donor Direct Action: $90,000 · OtherFrontline Women's Fund formerly Donor Direct ActionLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLMETROSQUASH NFP: $34,500 · Other+19 more: $106,750 · Other+19 moreTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC: $289,720 · Arts & CultureTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INCBRONX OPERA COMPANY INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBRONX OPERA COMPANY INC+3 more: $16,500 · Arts & CultureCoalition Against Trafficking In Women: $40,000 · InternationalWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $25,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $10,000 · InternationalTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $27,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationThe New School: $10,000 · EducationBRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 · HealthWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $3,250 · HealthFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $45,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$936,150Arts & Culture$341,220International$75,000Education$67,250Youth Development$61,000Health$52,250Civil Rights$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC: $289,720 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition Against Trafficking In Women: $40,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBRONX OPERA COMPANY INC: $35,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $34,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSWESTCHESTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rome Chamber Music Festival Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetShare our Spare: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Rowing & Kayaking Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC: $250 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.

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.

New York Women's Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundS&P Global Foundation…The Chicago Community…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…
New York Women's Foundation IncNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Women's Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Wallace Fox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wallace Fox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Wallace Fox Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wallace Fox 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 52 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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