· Private foundation
Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 114 grants below total $3,240,650 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,673,404 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $432,754 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Andrews Center Treatment & Learning Center | $200,000 |
| Mosaic Counseling Center of East Texas, Inc. | $200,000 |
| PATH - People Attempting To Help | $110,000 |
| East Texas Food Bank | $100,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Smith County | $95,000 |
| Smith County Champions for Children, Inc. | $70,000 |
| Bethesda Health Clinic | $65,000 |
| American Red Cross East Texas Chapter | $60,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Smith County | $60,000 |
| United Way of Smith County | $55,000 |
| Smith County Clubhouse | $55,000 |
| The Arc of Smith County | $50,000 |
| Meals on Wheels East Texas | $50,000 |
| Northeast Texas Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Serving Gregg, Harrison and Upshur Counties | $50,000 |
| Kingdom Life Academy | $50,000 |
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.
124 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY4× · 2021–2024 · $410k · revenue +4%
- SCSMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2018–2024 · $358k · revenue +168%
- HOHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS3× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MLMiracle League of Tylerone grant, 2023 · $100k
- HOHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -7%
- WOWOMEN ON THE ROCK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +27% · 26% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
Pregnancy counseling
To provide the highest quality of appropriate investigative, assessment, and ongoing thrapeutic treatment services for abused chilren and their families throught the four county service area (victoria, jackson, goliad, and dewitt).
Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy.
To assist Veterans of all ages & service era & their families navigate through the network of public & private agencies to obtain assistance service & support to establish & maintain productive lifestyles within the North Texas communities.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
To work to ensure children receive the needed services to overcome abuse and neglect.
To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowerment Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
101 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. 101 of the 220 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Smith County ↗
- Who funds SMITH COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Tyler Type 1 Diabetes Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds KOURAGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS STOREHOUSE FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CARES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP TYLER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Etx Successor System · T B Butler Foundation · Hoeffner 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.