· Private foundation
Fischer Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIV OF MICHIGAN - KIM EAGLE ENDOW | $30,000 |
| UNIV OF MICHIGAN - EVA FELDMAN PROG | $20,000 |
| WASHTENAW PROMISE | $1,000 |
| THE FARM AT TRINITY HEALTH | $1,000 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS YPSILANTI | $1,000 |
| SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OZONE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| THE CORNER HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $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 (FY17–24, $28k) 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
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 +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +144%
- SCSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +230%
- FGFOOD GATHERERS8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +12%- GCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -15%
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.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Labor union representing food and commercial workers, primarily in southeast michigan.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
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: United Way of Washtenaw County · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · Duffy Foundation · Trinity Health - Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fischer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fischer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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