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Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.9MHuman Services$2.5MEducation$1.5MFood & Nutrition$931kCrime & Legal$858kHousing & Shelter$736kArts & Culture$653kPhilanthropy$626kOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 114 grants below total $3,240,650, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,673,404 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $432,754 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Habitat for Humanity of Smith County$60,000
American Red Cross East Texas Chapter$60,000
United Way of Smith County$55,000
Smith County Clubhouse$55,000
The Arc of Smith County$50,000
Northeast Texas Habitat for Humanity, Inc. Serving Gregg, Harrison and Upshur Counties$50,000
Meals on Wheels East Texas$50,000
Kingdom Life Academy$50,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 130 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

130 repeat relationships: 90 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130
57

Total granted

$12M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +172%
  • SC
    SMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $358k · revenue +168%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS
    3× · 2018–2022 · $275k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • ML
    Miracle League of Tyler
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • AA
    Alzheimer's Alliance of Smith County
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -7%
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.

03Its 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
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Texas Community Counseling

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,…

Human Services
3
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services
5
Hope of South Texas Inc

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).

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6
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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7
Texas Inmate Families Association

Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy.

—
8
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
9
Veterans Center of North Texas Inc

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.

Health
10
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

—
11
Northeast Texas Casa Inc

To work to ensure children receive the needed services to overcome abuse and neglect.

Civil Rights
12
Wise County Domestic Violence Task Force

To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowerment Community Development Corporation; 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.
03the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 210 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
73/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East Texas Food Bank: $525,000 · OtherEast Texas Food BankMosaic Counseling Center of East Texas, Inc.: $322,500 · OtherAndrews Center Treatment & Learning Center: $298,000 · Other+139 more: $7,657,971 · Other+139 moreST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $180,000 · Human ServicesST PAUL CHI…NORTHEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST T…PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $125,000 · Human ServicesPATH - PEOP…CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS A…EAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK: $105,000 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS …RAHABS RETREAT AND RANCH INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesRAHABS RETR…EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO: $60,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Prevention Inc: $50,000 · Human Services+13 more: $280,000 · Human Services+13 moreBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $182,500 · HealthBETHESDA …SMITH COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $159,500 · HealthSMITH COU…Tyler Type 1 Diabetes Foundation: $126,406 · HealthTyler Typ…NEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $117,164 · HealthNEXT STEP…KOURAGE HEALTH INC: $115,000 · HealthKOURAGE H…NEW CREATION FOUNDATION INC: $99,065 · HealthNEW CREAT…HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA: $85,000 · HealthHOSPICE O…HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthHOSPICE O…Children are a Gift Foundation: $40,000 · Health+3 more: $90,000 · Health+3 moreSMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $358,000 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS: $120,000 · EducationPROMISE ACADEMY: $71,211 · EducationICEE Success Foundation: $64,932 · EducationTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EAST TEXAS: $32,000 · Education+3 more: $50,000 · EducationCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY: $474,967 · Crime & LegalTAPKARD INC: $72,000 · Crime & LegalHOPE INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY: $235,666 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyWOMENS FUND OF SMITH COUNTY: $80,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES- DIOCESE OF TYLER: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC: $177,500 · Civil RightsCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $122,500 · Civil RightsEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCATES INC: $26,000 · Civil Rights
Other$8,803,471Human Services$1,365,000Health$1,089,635Education$756,143Crime & Legal$571,967Philanthropy$522,666Civil Rights$326,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY: $474,967 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $358,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS: $275,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY: $235,666 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY: $202,330 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V: $200,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $182,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC: $177,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $175,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Smith County: $160,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSMITH COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $159,500 over 3y, 62% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $155,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $135,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTyler Type 1 Diabetes Foundation: $126,406 over 5y, 45% of budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $125,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $122,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS: $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $117,164 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKOURAGE HEALTH INC: $115,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY INC: $115,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetKINGDOM LIFE ACADEMY: $111,660 over 2y, 20% of budgetKINGS STOREHOUSE FOOD BANK INC: $111,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC: $106,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetEAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK: $105,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS CARES RESOURCE CENTER: $105,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCAMP TYLER FOUNDATION: $104,260 over 3y, 12% of budgetEMPOWERMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $102,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetRAHABS RETREAT AND RANCH INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNEW CREATION FOUNDATION INC: $99,065 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $82,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHRISTUS-TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES FOUNDATION: $80,024 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENS FUND OF SMITH COUNTY: $80,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN ON THE ROCK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTAPKARD INC: $72,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPROMISE ACADEMY: $71,211 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF SMITH COUNTY: $70,217 over 2y, 16% of budgetEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetICEE Success Foundation: $64,932 over 3y, 50% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $60,000 over 5y, 8.3% 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.

  • 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 ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR KIDS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Smith County ↗
  • Who funds SMITH COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Tyler Type 1 Diabetes Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds KOURAGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF VAN ZANDT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM LIFE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KINGS STOREHOUSE FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS CARES RESOURCE CENTER ↗

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.

East Texas Communitie…The Rogers FoundationThe Louis and Peaches…A S Genecov FoundationHibbs Family Foundati…James I Perkins Famil…Byers Family Foundati…Riter Family Foundati…The Junior League of …Etx Successor SystemT B Butler FoundationHoeffner Foundation
East Texas Communities FoundationTX94.2× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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 210 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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