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Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers

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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$7.5MArts & Culture$3.9MReligion$3.9MPhilanthropy$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.2MCivil Rights$514kHuman Services$455kCommunity Improvement$376kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $233k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$1,000,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL$750,000
INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION$285,000
CITY FUTURES INC$75,000
WILD TOMORROW FUND$50,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL$25,500
CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION$25,008
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$25,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$25,000
TRIP OF A LIFETIIME$25,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$25,000
REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION$25,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$25,000
CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE$22,900
LALELA$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%TRIP OF A LIFETIIME: $25k → 9%HEROES NIGHT OUT INC: $1k → 6%GRAHAMS FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%TRIP OF A LIFETIME: $10k → 9%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%TRIP OF A LIFETIIME: $10k → 9%TRIP OF A LIFETIIME: $10k → 9%TRIP OF A LIFETIIME: $10k → 9%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $25k → 8%TRIP OF A LIFETIME: $10k → 9%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $25k → 8%TRIP OF A LIFETIIME: $10k → 9%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $25k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $25k → 8%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $1k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $36k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%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

VT
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 66 repeat orgs$858k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
71

Total granted

$21M
$847k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IM
    INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +14%
  • CF
    CITY FUTURES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +49%
  • TW
    THIRD WAY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $450k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY PHILHARMONIC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -22%
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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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4
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
The Partnership for New York City Inc

(a) the development, stimulation, encouragement, improvement and promotion of the business climate in new york city; (b) the fostering of trade and commerce in new york city and the promotion of the general welfare andprosperity of new…

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7
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
8
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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9
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
10
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Futures Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sikh American Veterans Alliance Inc. 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

97 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. 97 of the 143 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/97
Grantees still filing
70/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $6,750,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALUNITED JEWISH APPEAL: $4,700,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEALTEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $1,200,500 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INC+91 more: $2,492,068 · Other+91 moreINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,480,000 · Arts & CultureINTREPID MUSEUM FOU…+12 more: $373,956 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCITY FUTURES INC: $1,072,900 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $400,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $123,600 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $49,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,750 · HealthTHE THOMAS SCULLY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $25,000 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Health+9 more: $47,500 · HealthTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $450,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $14,800 · Civil RightsREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $269,350 · Community ImprovementBURNING MAN PROJECT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $46,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,500 · Community ImprovementWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$15,142,568Arts & Culture$3,853,956Housing & Shelter$1,103,900Health$720,850Civil Rights$464,800Community Improvement$417,850Human Services$291,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $3,480,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCITY FUTURES INC: $1,072,900 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $450,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $269,350 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $153,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $123,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $123,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWILD TOMORROW FUND: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC: $99,168 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $93,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $87,556 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $85,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC: $71,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNew York City Partnership Foundation Inc: $56,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $49,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $49,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $47,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM: $34,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THOMAS SCULLY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL CULTURE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIKH AMERICAN VETERANS ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHILLVETS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetREISENBACH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBuilding Skills NY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD TOMORROW FUND ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds TRIP OF A LIFETIME INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds New York City Partnership Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Urban Arts Partnership ↗
  • Who funds BURNING MAN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARKYOUTH NYC INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Walentas Foundation L…May and Samuel Rudin …The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…The Realty Foundation…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationAltman FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…Brooklyn Community Fo…Robin Hood Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY29.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Walentas Foundation Ltd · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Realty Foundation of New York Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · Altman Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation

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 Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers?

Find your warmest path to Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers 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 143 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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