Tennessee · Private foundation
Fishel 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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Fishel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $66k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $59k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $59k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $63k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dysautonomia Foundation Inc Dba Familial Dysautonomia Foundation | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Safe Haven Inc | $18,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Park Center Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Homework Hotline Inc | $15,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Pencil Foundation | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Martha O'Bryan Center Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Abe's Garden | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dysautonomia Foundation Inc Dba Familial Dysautonomia Foundation | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Safe Haven Inc | $18,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Park Center Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Homework Hotline Inc | $15,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Pencil Foundation | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Martha O'Bryan Center Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oasis Center Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Abe's Garden | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Housing Solutions Inc | $9,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan Recovery Community Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Senior Ride Nashville Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Book Em | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Goodwill Foundation of Middle Tennessee | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The New Beginnings Center | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nashville Food Project Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fishel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Eisen-Wald Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Fishel Family Foundation
- How much does Fishel Family Foundation give?
- Fishel Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $71,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Fishel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (16%), Education (11%).
- Who are Fishel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Dysautonomia Foundation Inc Dba Familial Dysautonomia Foundation ($25k), Youth Villages Inc ($25k), Safe Haven Inc ($19k).
- Does Fishel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fishel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fishel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Frist Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fishel Family Foundation based?
- Fishel Family Foundation is based in TN.
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