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Eileen Fisher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$167k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Science & Tech$300kPhilanthropy$266kHealth$230kEnvironment$185kReligion$120kSocial Science$95kHuman Services$94kCivil Rights$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STORYDANCER PROJECT$25,000
OMEGA INSTITUTE$25,000
PRESENCING INSTITUTE$25,000
SCENIC HUDSON$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC$10,000
NORTH STAR FUND$10,000
RIVERKEEPER INC$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE$6,500
ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY$5,000
NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
LONGHOUSE RESERVE$3,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA AND HEALTH: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 21%BOLD FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA AND HEALTH: $10k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA AND HEALTH: $10k → 12%DELIVERING GOOD: $5k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $5k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%REMAKE: $1k → 10%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $7k → 17%WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $3k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Eileen Fisher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Eileen Fisher Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 34 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
36

Total granted

$1.1M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+23%

Still filing today

74%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentEmploymentArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • PI
    PRESENCING INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +162%
  • RI
    RIVERKEEPER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +31%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $53k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue ×11
  • N
    NAACP
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +2%
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
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
4
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
5
Women's World Banking Inc

The mission of women's world banking is to expand the economicassets, participation and power of low-income women and theirhouseholds by helping them access financial services, knowledge andmarkets. for more information, see schedule o.

International
6
Stichting to Promote Women's World Banking

The mission of stichting to promote women's world banking is to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge and markets. for more…

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7
Women's Business Enterprise National Council

Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.

Civil Rights
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services
10
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
11
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is IMPACT100 Westchester Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bold Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
32/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EILEEN FISHER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · OtherTHE EILEEN FISHER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATIONOMEGA INSTITUTE: $85,000 · OtherOMEGA INSTITUTENAACP: $25,000 · OtherWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · OtherTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Other+39 more: $240,339 · Other+39 morePRESENCING INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · EducationPRESENCING INSTITUTE INCOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $50,000 · EducationOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTI…+5 more: $34,000 · Education+5 moreRIVERKEEPER INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER …Scenic Hudson Inc: $37,500 · EnvironmentScenic Hudso…The Pachamama Alliance: $17,500 · EnvironmentThe Pachamam…ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $12,500 · EnvironmentONE EARTH PH…THE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureIRVINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $52,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $52,500 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $6,500 · Human ServicesDELIVERING GOOD INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $9,500 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT100 WESTCHESTER INC: $3,400 · PhilanthropyWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$670,339Education$384,000Environment$182,500Arts & Culture$120,000Health$108,000Human Services$83,500Philanthropy$50,900

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 budgetPRESENCING INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE EILEEN FISHER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE STORYDANCER PROJECT INC: $110,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYES SHE CAN INCORPORATED: $12,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Funding Network: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNET IMPACT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GARRISON INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCompanies for Causes: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDELIVERING GOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTONATIERRA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE LEAGUE OF INTRAPRENEURS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCUSTOM COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT100 WESTCHESTER INC: $3,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCREATIVE HEALING FOR YOUTH IN PAIN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA WHITE PLAINS & CENTRAL WESTCHESTER INC AND ITS AFFILIATES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINGTON PBA NY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE AND RESILIENCE LONG ISLAND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% 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.

Novo FoundationThe Ford FoundationTides FoundationThe New York Communit…ImpactassetsincThe Rockefeller Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Rockefeller Philanthr…Jewish Communal FundTd Charitable Foundat…Amalgamated Charitabl…Rsf Social Finance Inc
Novo FoundationNY19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Novo Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Presencing Institute Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report 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.
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How do I get to Eileen Fisher Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eileen 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 79 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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