· Private foundation
Collins Fisher Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k14 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| BAYLOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UPLIFT EDUCATION | $8,500 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $8,000 |
| BEHIND EVERY DOOR | $6,600 |
| THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| THE THOMAS DYE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SOUTHWEST MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| YALE CLUB OF DALLAS | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| CIRCLE OF CHILDREN PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SAINT ALBANS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +70% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2021 · $550k · revenue +30%
- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $43k · revenue +14%
- BHBaylor Health Care System Foundation4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- TCTHE CARY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $3k
- DCDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +24%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Goodwill Industries of South Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEEDLEPOINT GUILD INC ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Collins 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.