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Fischmann 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.

$402k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
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$1.6MReligion$448kRecreation & Sports$106kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$90kHousing & Shelter$55kInternational$34kCivil Rights$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$815
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION$80,000
WILSHIRE BLVD TEMPLE$57,980
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$50,000
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS$37,715
CHABAD OF THE VALLEY$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL$15,000
BEVERLY HILLS JEWISH COMM CENTER$15,000
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$10,000
CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA$5,000
THE BRAID$5,000
HUNTER COLLEGE HILLEL FOUNDATION$5,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF LA$4,000
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VISIONARY WOMEN: $2k → 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

MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 32 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
31

Total granted

$1.9M
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

28%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +21%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +47%
  • AJ
    ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • TW
    The West Project
    one grant, 2024 · $31k
  • US
    UNITED STATES HOLOCASTE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
4
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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7
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
10
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
11
Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)

Education
12
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Impact Forum Foundation. 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

27 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. 27 of the 70 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $650,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $265,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYUCLA FOUNDATION: $175,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCHABAD OF THE VALLEY INC: $228,450 · OtherCHABAD OF THE VALLEY INCWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $165,630 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUSC SHOAH FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherUSC SHOAH FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLS: $71,267 · OtherYOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH BEVERLY HILLSUSC LIBRARIES: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR ADULTS: $50,000 · Other+41 more: $357,770 · Other+41 moreIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $180,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,480 · Arts & CultureThe West Project: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalBEYOND TYPE 1: $2,500 · Health
Education$1,350,000Other$1,288,117Philanthropy$192,500Arts & Culture$88,980Recreation & Sports$31,000International$10,000Health$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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $650,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $265,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL: $33,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe West Project: $31,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJewish Women International: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND TYPE 1: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDAVID LABKOVSKI PROJECT: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $180 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT FORUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The West Project ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH WOMEN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗

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 Foundation of Los AngelesCA26.9× affinity11 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 · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · Alpert & Alpert Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Fischmann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fischmann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fischmann Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fischmann Family Foundation 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 70 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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