· Public charity
Fisher House Foundation Inc
To promote and enhance the public perception and image of fisher houses and the united states armed forces, and to provide financial assistance to current members of the united states armed forces, veterans and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 70 grants below total $3,195,010 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,098,677 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,903,667 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $759k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $837k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| NAVY FISHER HOUSES | $369,714 |
| ARMY FISHER HOUSES | $358,210 |
| AIR FORCE FISHER HOUSE FUND | $262,100 |
| GREENTRIKE | $100,000 |
| MILITARY TIMES FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| NATION'S FINEST | $75,000 |
| HILLVETS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MUSICIANS ON CALL INC | $75,000 |
| STRONGHOLD FOOD PANTRY | $75,000 |
| VAPORHCS | $72,563 |
| FISHERNIGHTINGALE HOUSES INC | $69,203 |
| TAMPA FISHER HOUSE | $55,756 |
| VA SOUTHERN NEVADA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM | $53,903 |
| MINNEAPOLIS FISHER HOUSE | $50,682 |
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 (FY22–24, $354k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $551k 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
- MTMILITARY TIMES FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +14%
- TITEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +26%
- HMHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MOMedal Of Honor Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +168%
- DDDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -44%
- PAPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue +26%
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.
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
The fisher house, inc. mission is to support military members, veterans, and their families staying at fisher houses and those who are eligible to utilize fisher houses but staying at other appropriate points of care venues while they…
Lexington fisher house foundation, inc. is dedicated to financial, volunteer and emotional support for the pittsburgh fisher house built by the fisher foundation to support americas military in their time of need by providing a home away…
Fund and support programs for mental health wellness and socializing for all uniformed services members veterans and their families including education sailing instruction and environmental conservation.
Friends of the pittsburgh fisher house, inc. is dedicated to financial, volunteer and emotional support for the pittsburgh fisher house built by the fisher foundation to support america's military in their time of need by providing "a home…
Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Michigan and the most unlike its peers is The Rain and Rose Charitable Fund Llc. 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.
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 20 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 78 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 NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY TIMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FisherNightingale Houses Inc ↗
- Who funds TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Healthcare Hospitality Network Inc ↗
- Who funds STRONGHOLD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HILLVETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATION'S FINEST ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES 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: Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · American Bible Society · Give Back Foundation · The Bowlers to Veterans Link · Tee It Up for the Troops Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Gary Sinise Foundation · Wounded Warrior Project Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Synchrony Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Fisher House Foundation Inc 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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% 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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