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Fischer Family Foundation at a glance

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Fischer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$619kEducation$360kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE$25,000
ST PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH$6,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $1k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $5k → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$739k · 5 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$739k
$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WE
    WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $470k · revenue +35%
  • LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +19%
  • WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • DS
    DIVINE SAVIOR ACADEMY-SANTA RITA RANCH
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • TC
    THE CHAPEL AT OCEAN REEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SI
    SOME INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -24%
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
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
2
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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3
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
4
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

—
5
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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6
Washington County Commission On Aging Inc/Area Agency On Aging

To plan and coordinate systems of services which help older americans, those with disabilities regardless of age and caregivers, maintain their independence through a variety of programs. these programs include, but are not limited to,…

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7
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
8
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

—
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
11
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
12
Career Path Services Employment and Training

Career path services is a workforce development and human services nonprofit corporation.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Kingdom Workers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $470,000 · ReligionWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKER…INTERFAITH WORKS: $20,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionDIVINE SAVIOR ACADEMY-SANTA RITA RANCH: $150,000 · OtherDIVINE SAVIOR ACADEMY-SANTA RITA RANCHTHE CHAPEL AT OCEAN REEF FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE CHAPEL AT OCEAN REEF FOUNDATIONWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $60,000 · OtherWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INCST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $24,000 · OtherST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCHSOME INC: $20,000 · OtherHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION-STRATEGIC INITIATIVES: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $175,000 · EducationLEWIS & CLARK COLL…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBETHESDA CARES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Religion$495,000Other$380,000Education$175,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $470,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH12.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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