· Private foundation
Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LORETO HOUSE | $17,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| MARY ELIZABETH MATERNITY HOME INC | $11,900 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD INC | $5,500 |
| HEARTS FOR HOMES | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH | $5,000 |
| STANFORD CHARITABLE CORP | $5,000 |
| ST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC | $3,000 |
| THEATRE DENTON | $3,000 |
| COOKE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $2,500 |
| THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- LHLORETO HOUSE4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +76%
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD INC4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +15%
- HFHEARTS FOR HOMES3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART CATHOLIC PARISHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- MTMUENSTER TEXAS JAYCEES INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -35%
- BSBLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -6%
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.
Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.
To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.
Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
Child Advocacy
To work to ensure children receive the needed services to overcome abuse and neglect.
Central distribution center used by community churches, organizations, and individuals to distribute food raised in drives and other charitable activities to needy families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sky Therapeutic Riding and Respite. 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 27 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 44 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
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 LORETO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Elizabeth Maternity Home Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR HOMES ↗
- Who funds THE STANFORD CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds ABBA WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds MUENSTER TEXAS JAYCEES INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY HEARTS FEEDING MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Pines Education Group dba The Pines Catholic Camp ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITE ↗
- Who funds Muenster Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds DENTON BENEFIT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUST POINT FOUNDATION INC XXXXXX2342 ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Cooke County Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MUENSTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE TIPTON HOME ↗
- Who funds Lovepacs ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Coserv Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc · The Henry Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Cross Timbers Rotary Club Charities Inc · United Way of Denton County Inc · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Pnm Tnmp 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 Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation 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.
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.
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