· Private foundation
Collins Fisher Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| YALE CLUB OF DALLAS | $3,000 |
| CIRCLE OF CHILDREN PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SAINT ALBANS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +20%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Collins Fisher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collins Fisher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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