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Fisher Koch Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+3 grants · $34M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND | $23,961,919 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $250,000 |
| THE SANDERS INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +288% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M 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
- PIPATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC4× · 2018–2021 · $31M · revenue ×23 · 72% of their budget
- FIFITMONEY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +814% · 59% of their budget
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $900k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- TMTHE MISSION POSSIBLE IMPACT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $250k
- COCHURCH OF THE PALMSone grant, 2022 · $250k
- WWATERORGone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +22%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council for Economic Education and the most unlike its peers is Dorothy Koch Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 PATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC ↗
- Who funds FITMONEY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Sanders Institute ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE ↗
- Who funds Dorothy Koch Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLAY SOPER MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Koch Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gosnold Inc — 5% 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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