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Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$577kHealth$327kHousing & Shelter$201kEducation$173kFood & Nutrition$103kRecreation & Sports$88kCrime & Legal$70kArts & Culture$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES &$10,000
TRANSITIONAL LIVING SERVICES$10,000
CASA LAKE COUNTY INC$10,000
GENESYS WORKS CHICAGO$10,000
SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION$10,000
SITSTAYREAD$10,000
CASA OF KANE COUNTY$10,000
FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC$10,000
CHICAGO DEBATE COMMISSION DBA$10,000
INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF$10,000
ONE HOPE UNITED$10,000
BEACON PLACE$10,000
SENIOR HOME SHARING$10,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$748k · 48 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
84

Total granted

$748k
$743k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+9%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k 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
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

  • 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%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +87%
  • CD
    Chicago Debate Commission Dba Chicago Debates
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Support Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

130 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. 130 of the 189 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/130
Grantees still filing
80/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC: $40,000 · Other+94 more: $814,860 · Other+94 moreSALUTE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSALUTE INCThe Beacon Place NFP: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Beacon Place NFPMAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesOf Color Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesPark Lawn Association Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesMaryville Academy: $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 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSenior Home Sharing: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc: $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 & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterChildrens 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 · HealthJOYFUL JOURNEY INC: $5,000 · HealthNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE SECOND STORY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHEROIN EPIDEMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATION: $5,000 · HealthMental Health America of Illinois: $5,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES: $5,000 · HealthCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $22,500 · EducationYouth Guidance: $17,500 · EducationHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10,000 · EducationSIT STAY READ INC: $10,000 · EducationCREO DUPAGE LTD: $10,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO DEBATE COMMISSION: $10,000 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationHANDS OF HOPE ILLINOIS: $7,500 · EducationELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · EducationChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationCHICAGO TECH ACADEMY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionGood News Community Kitchen: $5,000 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS PARTNERS IN HOPE NFP: $5,000 · Food & NutritionBEEF 4 HUNGER: $5,000 · Food & NutritionThe Miracle League of Joliet: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsRESTORING THE PATH: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ODAYIN: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsONE LOVE GLOBAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$854,860Human Services$489,000Housing & Shelter$133,500Health$128,000Education$122,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

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 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 budgetBEDS PLUS INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STAY THERAPEUTIC FARM INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN FOX VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOf Color Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSenior Home Sharing: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPark Lawn Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTransitional Living Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaryville Academy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $15,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship Housing Corporation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 budgetNEW MOMS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Miracle League of Joliet: $15,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICA CARES TOO: $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 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 budgetELDERCARE LAKE COUNTY: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTING FOR NON VIOLENCE: $12,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES ASSOCIATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSIT STAY READ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna Mission: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THERAPY THROUGH THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.

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 189 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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