Ohio · Private foundation
Fishel 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Fishel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k 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 | 27 | $1.1M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $561k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $443k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The First Community Church | $2,715,500 | 5 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Ohio Inc | $325,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of the Conservatory | $240,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence | $170,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Columbus Museum of Art | $165,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rapid 5 Project | $150,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Ohiohealth Corporation | $126,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $117,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Save a Warrior Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Childhood League Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($729k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fishel 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: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · L Brands Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Meuse Family Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Harry C Moores Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fishel Foundation
- How much does Fishel Foundation give?
- Fishel Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,257,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Fishel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Philanthropy (23%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Fishel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The First Community Church ($2.7M), United Way of Central Ohio Inc ($325k), Friends of the Conservatory ($240k).
- Does Fishel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fishel 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, L Brands Foundation.
- Where is Fishel Foundation based?
- Fishel Foundation is based in OH.
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