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Fisher Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$546k
Granted FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHealth$933kHuman Services$490kFood & Nutrition$286kEducation$275kHousing & Shelter$271kYouth Development$254kEnvironment$251kOther$0
02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k91 grants · $351k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $195k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK$15,000
MITCHELL INSTITUTE$15,000
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$15,000
DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS$15,000
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK OF MAINE$10,000
YOUTH FULL MAINE$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE$10,000
KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION$10,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY CONCEPTS$10,000
OPEN ARMS CLINIC INC$10,000
LEGAL SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $542k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $8k → 11%MAINE MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS: $8k → 15%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $5k → 11%YMCA CAMP OF MAINE: $5k → 12%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $5k → 11%YMCA CAMP OF MAINE: $5k → 12%WALDO COUNTY YMCA: $5k → 13%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $5k → 11%YMCA CAMP OF MAINE: $5k → 12%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $5k → 11%YMCA CAMP OF MAINE: $5k → 12%WALDO COUNTY WOODSHED: $5k → 13%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 15%SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICE: $5k → 11%LEARNINGWORKS: $5k → 7%SENIORSPLUS: $5k → 13%SENIORSPLUS: $5k → 13%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 15%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%EASTERN AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 9%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $15k → 7%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN COMMUNITY: $8k → 11%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $15k → 7%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $15k → 11%PROSPERITYME: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 120 repeat orgs$738k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

120 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
134

Total granted

$3.8M
$606k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+3%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +196%
  • SG
    Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +26%
  • DC
    DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • MB
    MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • TO
    TOWN OF ROCKPORT FBO ROCKPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • WC
    WABANAKI CULTURAL PRESERVATION COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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4
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
5
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
6
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
7
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
8
Harbor House Community Service Center

To enrich the quality of life of all people on Mount Desert Island through recreational, educational and social programs.

Community Improvement
9
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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10
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
11
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
12
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is First Amendment Museum At the Gannett House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Affordable HousingRegional Land Conservation …Community Food PantriesSenior and Vulnerable Housi…Island Community DevelopmentFamily Philanthropic Founda…Public LibrariesMaine Social Justice Advoca…Animal Shelter and Rescue S…Local History MuseumsRecreational Sports ClubsEarly Childhood Care and De…Victim Support & Advocacy S…Christian Discipleship Mini…Maine Community GrantmakersRegional Healthcare SystemsCommunity Arts & Performance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr12%9%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr17%32%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%2/249
the rest of the field
10%
641/6,682

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.

04the grantee network

238 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. 238 of the 288 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
81
Early backer (in before they grew)
233/238
Grantees still filing
147/238
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK — $155,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOKCommunity Concepts Inc — $90,000 · OtherCommunity Concepts Inc+89 more — $1,356,483 · Other+89 moreMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $105,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcastin…PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $90,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY …Portland Museum of Art — $90,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $72,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND TH…PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $70,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND STAGE COMPANY317 Main St Community Center Inc — $50,000 · Arts & Culture317 Main St Community Ce…MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $45,000 · Arts & CultureAbbe Museum — $40,000 · Arts & CulturePoints North Institute — $32,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $245,000 · Arts & Culture+22 moreMaineHealth — $300,000 · HealthMaineHealthCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $80,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DENTALPenobscot Community Health Center — $54,000 · HealthPenobscot Communit…Midcoast Recovery Coalition — $45,000 · HealthMidcoast Recovery …Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $35,000 · HealthLifeFlight Foundation — $35,000 · HealthShalom House Inc — $35,000 · Health+17 more — $144,000 · Health+17 moreDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesDOWNEAST COMM…Homeworthy — $90,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthyPREBLE STREET — $50,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $45,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Main…SOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES — $32,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN HARB…Hospice of Southern Maine — $30,000 · Human ServicesHospice of So…PROSPERITYME — $23,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Human Services+16 more — $142,500 · Human Services+16 moreSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute — $135,000 · EducationIsland Institute — $54,000 · EducationLiteracy Volunteers of Bangor — $11,500 · Education+7 more — $40,000 · EducationGood Shepherd Food Bank — $95,000 · Food & NutritionLocker Project — $25,000 · Food & NutritionYouth Full Maine — $15,000 · Food & NutritionBelfast Soup Kitchen — $12,000 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATING COMMUNITY — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+7 more — $35,500 · Food & NutritionLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC — $90,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT — $10,000 · Crime & LegalMaine Equal Justice Partners — $10,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE LONG CREEK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $6,500 · Crime & LegalAROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM — $5,000 · Crime & LegalMAINE PRISONER ADVOCACY COALITION — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,601,483Arts & Culture$929,500Health$728,000Human Services$538,000Education$240,500Food & Nutrition$192,500Crime & Legal$126,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaineHealth — $300,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK — $155,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute — $135,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation — $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $95,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Concepts Inc — $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $90,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHomeworthy — $90,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC — $90,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE — $72,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY — $70,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetPenobscot Community Health Center — $54,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute — $54,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET — $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budget317 Main St Community Center Inc — $50,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREE STREET YOUTH INC — $50,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine — $48,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $45,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Voices — $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $45,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMidcoast Recovery Coalition — $45,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation — $45,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetAbbe Museum — $40,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Iris Network — $36,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care — $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOOTS2ROOTS — $35,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetShalom House Inc — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HARBOR ELDERCARE SERVICES — $32,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetPoints North Institute — $32,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern ME — $30,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAROOSTOOK ASPIRATIONS INITIATIVE — $27,500 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $27,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLocker Project — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BAXTER STATE PARK — $24,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRobbie Foundation — $24,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetPROSPERITYME — $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budget
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 MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK ↗
  • Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Homeworthy ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Penobscot Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HANCOCK COMMUNITY AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds TREE STREET YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
  • Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
  • Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe Voices ↗
  • Who funds BANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Midcoast Recovery Coalition ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Abbe Museum ↗
  • Who funds AVESTA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Iris Network ↗
  • Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
  • Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Simmons Foundation - …Bangor Savings Bank F…Davis Family Foundati…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…Sam L Cohen FoundationStephen & Tabitha Kin…Libra FoundationOnion FoundationSaco & Biddeford Savi…Morton-Kelly Charitab…
Maine Community Foundation IncME204.7× affinity198 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Libra Foundation · Onion Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust

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 Fisher Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    58report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fisher Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fisher Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 288 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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