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Fisher Global Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $750k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| John Hopkins University | $743,684 |
| Bay Area Lyme Foundation | $608,085 |
| Oregon State University Foundation | $599,732 |
| National 4-H Council | $308,000 |
| Team Rubicon | $300,000 |
| Blair House Restoration Fund | $250,000 |
| Childrens Literacy Project | $225,000 |
| Boulder Crest Retreat Foundation | $125,000 |
| The Avalon Network Inc | $125,000 |
| The Pacific Forest Trust Inc | $75,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $50,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic Keep Memory Alive | $50,000 |
| Operation Air Drop | $50,000 |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $50,000 |
| Red Door Urban Missions Inc | $45,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The primary mission of Purdue Research Foundation is to advance the mission of Purdue University.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.
First responders foundation's mission is to serve and honor all our first responders and their families, build appreciation and respect for their work, and enhance public safety.
The mission of the stephen siller tunnel to towers foundation is to honor the sacrifice of fdny firefighter stephen siller, and all those who laid down their lives to save others on september 11, 2001. we also honor our military, and first…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 28 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 BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AVALON NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AIRDROP INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ASSO MIDLAND C ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Global 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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