Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Fisa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Fisa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $1.5M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.2M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $1.3M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.1M | 55% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery | $361,200 | 7 | 1% |
| Education Law Center - PA | $360,400 | 7 | 4% |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | $355,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania | $306,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Gwens Girls Inc | $288,375 | 7 | 3% |
| Disability Lead | $280,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Autism Connection of Pa | $215,562 | 6 | 22% |
| Pennsylvania Health Law Project | $215,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Sisters Place Inc | $213,000 | 7 | 3% |
| East Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc | $185,250 | 7 | 29% |
Show all 144 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fisa Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Upmc Group · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Buhl Foundation
How this is measured
About Fisa Foundation
- How much does Fisa Foundation give?
- Fisa Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $1,492,706 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fisa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (17%), Education (12%).
- Who are Fisa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery ($361k), Education Law Center - PA ($360k), East End Cooperative Ministry ($355k).
- Does Fisa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fisa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fisa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments.
- Where is Fisa Foundation based?
- Fisa Foundation is based in PA.
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