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Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$522k
Granted FY2025still arriving
93
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of ANDREW AND ALICE FISCHER CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k74 grants · $324k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $198k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRUSHER'S CLUB DBA RESTORING$15,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$12,500
CASA LAKE COUNTY INC$10,000
ONE HOPE UNITED$10,000
COMMON PANTRY$10,000
SITSTAYREAD$10,000
CASA OF KANE COUNTY$10,000
FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC$10,000
DISABLED PATRIOT FUND$10,000
INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF$10,000
VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC$10,000
TRANSITIONAL LIVING SERVICES$10,000
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES &$10,000
SENIOR HOME SHARING$10,000
BEACON PLACE$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC: $10k → 15%TURNING POINT INC: $3k → 6%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $5k → 8%MAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM: $5k → 6%ALICIAS HOUSE: $5k → 7%BEACON PLACE: $10k → 8%ELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY: $8k → 8%OUTREACH: $5k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $3k → 14%OPEN HEART MAGIC: $3k → 14%TURNING POINTE AUTISM FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%AMERICA CARES TOO: $5k → 14%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5k → 8%CHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $5k → 14%HELPING HAND CENTER: $3k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS CHICAGO: $3k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $5k → 14%OF COLOR INC: $5k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 14%TRINITY CHARITIES: $3k → 14%ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%SALUTE INC: $5k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$694k · 43 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
89

Total granted

$694k
$737k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SI
    SALUTE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • IG
    IMD Guest House Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BP
    BEDS PLUS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +76%
  • ES
    Easter Seals Of Dupage &Fox Valley Region
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
  • FO
    Friends of Fisher House
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Family Services

Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…

Human Services
2
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
3
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
4
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
5
Progressive Housing Inc

To operate facilities throughout illinois for the long-term care of developmentally disabled residents in our intermediate care facilities and community integrated living arrangements.

Human Services
6
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
7
Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services
8
Service Inc of Illinois

Service Inc. of Illinois was formed in 1989 to provide screening, assessment, evaluation, service planning, referral, linkage, follow-up, & related services to individuals with developmental disabilities and/or developmental delays in 17…

Human Services
9
Rimland Services Nfp

Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.

Human Services
10
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
11
Meals On Wheels Chicago

Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.

Food & Nutrition
12
Austin Special Chicago

To provide for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hands of Hope Illinois. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/132
the rest of the field
15%
6,046/39,139

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 194 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/130
Grantees still filing
80/130
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC — $40,000 · Other+99 more — $799,860 · Other+99 moreSALUTE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSALUTE INCThe Beacon Place NFP — $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Beacon Place NFPMAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesMaryville Academy — $20,000 · Human ServicesOf Color Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesPark Lawn Association Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $17,500 · Human Services+41 more — $330,500 · Human Services+41 moreChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $30,000 · HealthIMD Guest House Foundation — $23,000 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $17,500 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR THERAPY THROUGH THE ARTS — $10,000 · HealthGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC — $5,000 · HealthJOYFUL JOURNEY INC — $5,000 · HealthHEROIN EPIDEMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION — $5,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES — $5,000 · HealthMental Health America of Illinois — $5,000 · HealthTHE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $22,500 · EducationYouth Guidance — $17,500 · EducationHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $10,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO DEBATE COMMISSION — $10,000 · EducationSIT STAY READ INC — $10,000 · EducationCREO DUPAGE LTD — $10,000 · EducationHANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS — $7,500 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL — $7,500 · EducationELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $5,000 · EducationChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for — $5,000 · EducationCHICAGO TECH ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationGLENWOOD ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationSenior Home Sharing — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTransitional Living Services Inc — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Housing Corporation — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP — $5,000 · Food & NutritionGood News Community Kitchen — $5,000 · Food & NutritionBEEF 4 HUNGER — $5,000 · Food & NutritionThe Miracle League of Joliet — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsRESTORING THE PATH — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ODAYIN — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$839,860Human Services$489,000Health$128,000Education$122,500Housing & Shelter$113,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC — $40,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSALUTE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Beacon Place NFP — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation — $23,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEDS PLUS INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSenior Home Sharing — $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTransitional Living Services Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaryville Academy — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOf Color Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPark Lawn Association Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $15,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFellowship Housing Corporation — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Miracle League of Joliet — $15,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetNEW MOMS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALICIA'S HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GLENCOE — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICA CARES TOO — $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMATH CIRCLES OF CHICAGO — $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY — $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPARENTING FOR NON VIOLENCE — $12,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHoward Area Community Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOAK LEYDEN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMadonna Mission — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORING THE PATH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHICAGO DEBATE COMMISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

George M Eisenberg Fo…The a Montgomery Ward…United Way of Metropo…Helen V Brach Foundat…Northwestern Memorial…Dr Scholl FoundationThe Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Oberweiler FoundationAbbVie FoundationThe Pelino Charitable…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL94.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Oberweiler Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Pelino Charitable Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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