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Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation at a glance

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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.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$77kHousing & Shelter$56kRecreation & Sports$36kReligion$25kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$8kPhilanthropy$6kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
STANFORD CHARITABLE CORP$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH$5,000
ST JUDE$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOVEPACS: $1k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH: $5k → 11%ABBA WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ABBA WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ABBA WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 13%LORETO HOUSE: $17k → 8%MARY ELIZABETH MATERNITY HOME INC: $12k → 13%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $5k → 14%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $5k → 14%MARY ELIZABETH MATERNITY HOME INC: $4k → 13%HEARTS FOR HOMES: $3k → 14%LORETO HOUSE: $8k → 8%STANFORD CHARITABLE CORP: $8k → 13%STANFORD CHARITABLE CORP: $5k → 13%LORETO HOUSE: $5k → 8%COOKE COUNTY HOPE ALLIANCE: $2k → 13%LORETO HOUSE: $5k → 8%BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITE: $3k → 8%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$174k · 16 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$174k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • LH
    LORETO HOUSE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +76%
  • OD
    OUR DAILY BREAD INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +15%
  • HF
    HEARTS FOR HOMES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART CATHOLIC PARISH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • MT
    MUENSTER TEXAS JAYCEES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -35%
  • BS
    BLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITE
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -6%
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
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
Casa of Deep East Texas Inc

Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.

Crime & Legal
3
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center Inc

To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.

Human Services
4
North East Texas Benevolence Inc

Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.

Food & Nutrition
5
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

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.

Human Services
6
North Dallas Food Pantry

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.

Human Services
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

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.

Civil Rights
8
Central Texas Children's 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.

Human Services
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights
10
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
11
Northeast Texas Casa Inc

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

Civil Rights
12
Denton Community Food Center Inc

Central distribution center used by community churches, organizations, and individuals to distribute food raised in drives and other charitable activities to needy families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LORETO HOUSE: $34,500 · Human ServicesLORETO HOUSEMary Elizabeth Maternity Home Inc: $15,400 · Human ServicesMary Elizabeth Maternity Home IncHEARTS FOR HOMES: $12,500 · Human ServicesHEARTS FOR HOMESTHE STANFORD CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE STANFORD CHARITABLE CORPORATIONABBA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesABBA WOMEN'S CENTER INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $7,250 · Human Services+4 moreNORTH TEXAS FAIR AND RODEO: $20,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FAIR AND RODEONORTH TEXAS STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION INCST JUDE: $7,500 · OtherST JUDEST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $6,500 · OtherST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCHSACRED HEART CATHOLIC PARISH: $5,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHOLIC PARISHMUENSTER TEXAS JAYCEES INC: $5,000 · OtherMUENSTER TEXAS JAYCEES INCCOOKE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $4,500 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $3,500 · Other+16 more: $28,000 · Other+16 moreOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $28,250 · Food & NutritionOUR DAILY BRE…HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTRUST POINT FOUNDATION INC XXXXXX2342: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyNORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE MUENSTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 · EducationHUNGRY HEARTS FEEDING MINISTRY: $4,000 · ReligionThe Pines Education Group dba The Pines Catholic Camp: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$94,650Other$92,000Food & Nutrition$28,250Philanthropy$15,500Education$7,500Religion$4,000Recreation & Sports$3,500

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 budgetLORETO HOUSE: $34,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD INC: $28,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMary Elizabeth Maternity Home Inc: $15,400 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHEARTS FOR HOMES: $12,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE STANFORD CHARITABLE CORPORATION: $12,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetHANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetABBA WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUENSTER TEXAS JAYCEES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHUNGRY HEARTS FEEDING MINISTRY: $4,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Pines Education Group dba The Pines Catholic Camp: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE SKY THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND RESPITE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMuenster Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDENTON BENEFIT LEAGUE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NORTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUST POINT FOUNDATION INC XXXXXX2342: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MUENSTER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE TIPTON HOME: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLovepacs: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN DISASTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeventeen22 Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DENTON COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Coserv Charitable Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…Community Foundation …Dugas Family Foundati…The Henry FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Cross Timbers Rotary …United Way of Denton …Gil and Dody Weaver F…The Rees-Jones Founda…Pnm Tnmp Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX25.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clyde and Pauline Fisher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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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