The Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation honors Frieda C. Fox, an accomplished teacher, artist, and musician who was the first in her family to attend college in the 1920's. Throughout her life, she inspired a love of learning, self-expression, and compassion within her family and community. Through this foundation, four generations of her family hope to do the same.

Our mission is to maximize the potential of children and youth, with the greater family vision that all children may have the strong and effective learning environments they need to encourage their talent, creativity and excellence independent of their families' income or economic status.

The foundation makes grants to non-profit organizations serving children and youth in Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County, California only. We also go "beyond the check," providing high engagement, pro-bono technical assistance to a small number of our current or former grant recipients. We consider projects in the areas of organizational effectiveness, scaling, replication, communications, fund development and other high impact projects.

If you have NEVER received foundation funding, you may introduce your program to us via an online Letter of Introduction. The foundation uses this database when issuing invitations to submit a proposal, and we will contact you if we open an RFP (Request for Proposals) that might be a good fit for your organization. Please note: a Letter of Introduction is not a pending grant request.

If you are a CURRENT or FORMER Fox Grantee, you may provide informal updates to us via email, at any time. We especially encourage you to let us know if you are expanding, replicating or collaboratively sharing programs that work, or if there are opportunities where the foundation can provide technical assistance to you in our areas of expertise.