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Fischer Family Fund at a glance

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Fischer Family Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$377kPhilanthropy$183kEnvironment$48kArts & Culture$44kHealth$33k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$212k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$25,000
STAMFORD HOSPITAL$10,000
BARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS$1,500
MEADOW RIDGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MCCALLUM THEATRE: $3k → 11%THE WEBB SCHOOLS: $150k → 14%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $11k → 14%BARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS: $2k → 11%OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $40k → 12%MEADOW RIDGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 9%JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 11%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $10k → 14%THE DODD AND NANCY FISCHER CHARITABLE FUND: $182k → 12%FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $10k → 14%STAMFORD HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $9k → 14%STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $101k → 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 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
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Scholars Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DODD AND NANCY FISCHER CHARITABLE FUND: $181,500 · OtherTHE DODD AND NANCY FISCHER CHARITABLE FUNDUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $175,845 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $45,368 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND+3 more: $13,500 · OtherTHE WEBB SCHOOLS: $150,000 · EducationTHE WEBB SCHOOLS+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyOREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureThe Stamford Hospital: $10,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $8,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINIC: $4,000 · HealthGARDEN CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,500 · Environment
Other$416,213Education$151,000Philanthropy$51,000Arts & Culture$41,500Health$22,000Environment$2,500

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 budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOLS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $45,368 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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.

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…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fischer Family Fund. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fischer Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Fischer Family Fund 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 16 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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