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Fox & Roachtrident Charities

Downingtown, PA · EIN 23-2823013. Reported 93 grants totalling $728,894 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

30organizations funded
$6,890median reported grant
$728,894granted, 2021-2025
73%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Fox & Roachtrident Charities, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $6,890. Half of what it reported fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $34,470. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
26 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
40 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants

8 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $96,503 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cancer Support Community of the Greater Lehigh ValleyAllentown, PA$93,068552025
Cradles to Crayons IncNewton, MA$84,7901652025
Sunshine Kids FoundationHouston, TX$67,258222025
Delaware Hospice IncNewark, DE$57,352852025
Habitat for Humanity International IncCoatesville, PA$56,983852025
The Gesu School IncPhiladelphia, PA$40,000552025
Gemma ServicesPlymouth Mtng, PA$38,110752025
West End Neighborhood House IncWilmington, DE$25,377332024
Unforgotten Haven IncBlackwood, NJ$21,845632023
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition AlliancePhiladelphia, PA$21,725222022
Minding Your MindArdmore, PA$20,000112022
Urbanpromise Ministries IncPennsauken, NJ$17,500222022
AclamoNorristown, PA$13,991222022
Ronald Mcdonald House GlobalChicago, IL$13,850222022
Family Promise of Southwest New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit CorporationClarksboro, NJ$13,685222022
Homefront IncLawrenceville, NJ$13,680222022
Community Food Bank of New Jersey IncHillside, NJ$13,407112022
Covenant House New Jersey IncNewark, NJ$13,270222022
Ronald Mcdonald House PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$12,820222025
American Heart Association IncDallas, TX$12,656222022
Project HomePhiladelphia, PA$11,282222022
Parkside Business & Community in Partnership IncCamden, NJ$10,000112021
Rescue Mission of TrentonTrenton, NJ$8,500112021
Peters PlaceRadnor, PA$8,389112021
Laurel HouseNorristown, PA$8,066112021
St Patricks Center IncWilmington, DE$7,500112022
Covenant House IncPhiladelphia, PA$6,855112021
Our ViewPennsauken, NJ$6,630312023
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High SchoolPhiladelphia, PA$5,200112021
Food Bank of South Jersey IncPennsauken, NJ$5,105112021

19 of 30 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
10 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202124$250,142$8,339
202220$207,627$7,337
202332$76,305$966
20249$98,317$8,000
20258$96,503$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

46% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Pennsylvania
$336K
New Jersey
$124K
Delaware
$90K
Massachusetts
$85K
Texas
$80K
Illinois
$14K

Down to the city

Philadelphia, PA
$98K
Allentown, PA
$93K
Newton, MA
$85K
Houston, TX
$67K
Newark, DE
$57K
Coatesville, PA
$57K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund22 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc21 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program18 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America17 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc16 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $6,890 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Fox & Roachtrident Charities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 470 Boot Road Po Box 473, Downingtown, PA, 19335.

EIN 23-2823013 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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