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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.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$270kArts & Culture$94kInternational$35kPhilanthropy$29kYouth Development$21kHealth$14kRecreation & Sports$11kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$600
Median grant
8
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ROADS SCHOOL MEANINGFUL ACCESS FUND$11,000
SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER$10,000
UCLA FOUNDATION FUND$5,600
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$3,000
THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,500
PS1 PLURALISTIC SCHOOL$2,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$600
LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION$500
STJUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$300
THE LACMA FUND$270
FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PARK$250
CYCLE KIDS INC$250
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY (SUNY)$150
PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE (PAL)$100
02The need
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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 (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $104 → 13%PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE: $100 → 14%CHECKPOINT ONE: $300 → 5%SWIM WITH HEART: $200 → 14%PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE: $100 → 14%CHECKPOINT ONE: $250 → 5%PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE: $100 → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $100 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$382k · 30 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
48

Total granted

$382k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+27%

Still filing today

47%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PS
    PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +20%
  • SC
    SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +26%
  • NR
    NEW ROADS SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $71k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • K4
    KIDS 4 THE CULTURE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TM
    THE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +37%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Checkpoint One. 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

54 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. 54 of the 86 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC: $87,450 · OtherPLURALISTIC SCHOOL INCNEW ROADS SCHOOL MEANINGFUL ACCESS FUND: $32,000 · OtherNEW ROADS SCHOOL MEANINGFUL ACCESS FUNDUCLA FOUNDATION FUND: $17,900 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATION FUNDGIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $17,000 · OtherGIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOLTHETA CLASS OF 1966: $11,500 · OtherKIDS 4 THE CULTURE INC: $10,000 · Other+50 more: $66,634 · Other+50 moreNEW ROADS SCHOOL: $71,000 · EducationNEW ROADS SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION: $28,600 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20,200 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY …+4 more: $4,100 · EducationSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $78,963 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL …+5 more: $1,817 · Arts & CulturePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $28,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,200 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $9,200 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PA: $750 · Recreation & SportsCYCLE KIDS INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsChild Justice Inc: $7,845 · Crime & LegalADVOT: $500 · Crime & LegalEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthCURE JM FOUNDATION: $902 · Health+3 more: $300 · Health
Other$242,484Education$123,900Arts & Culture$80,780Philanthropy$31,700Recreation & Sports$10,450Crime & Legal$8,345Health$6,952

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 budgetPLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC: $87,450 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $78,963 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL: $71,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $28,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $9,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChild Justice Inc: $7,845 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,729 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens Association of Georgetown: $3,575 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE SMALL HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURE JM FOUNDATION: $902 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PA: $750 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCheckpoint One: $550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Art Association: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PETER B TEELEY CHILDRENS CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYCLE KIDS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOT: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM WITH HEART: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WEST COAST CARE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $142 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THIRST PROJECT: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW ROADS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Child Justice Inc ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds Citizens Association of Georgetown ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE SMALL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Communal FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Shell USA Company Fou…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Child Justice Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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.

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 86 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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