· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY 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 |
| HOMEPORT | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF THE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| LIFECARE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION AND CHOICES | $2,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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),…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fishel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fishel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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