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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $875k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCH | $325,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY | $200,000 |
| RAPID 5 PROJECT | $150,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO | $75,000 |
| CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF THE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| HOMEPORT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,000 |
| LIFECARE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION AND CHOICES | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY3× · 2021–2025 · $240k · revenue +196%
- CFCHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +22%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $117k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SMST MARY SCHOOL THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k
- CLCHILDHOOD LEAGUE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -5%
- PCPRISON CONTEMPLATIVE FELLOWSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue ×384
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of the riverwoods group (trwg) is to plan, coordinate, implement & further the missions of the riverwoods company at exeter new hampshire (rwe), birch hill terrace (bh) dba riverwoods manchester (rwm), riverwoods durham (rwd),…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Rapid 5 Project ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAVE A WARRIOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds PRISON CONTEMPLATIVE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds MARBURN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds The Lettuce Work Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fishel Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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