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Fisher Koch Family Foundation

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$31MPhilanthropy$24MEnvironment$11MEducation$2.7MCrime & Legal$610kInternational$450kRecreation & Sports$250kReligion$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SANDERS INSTITUTE$50,000
HORIZON CIRCLE$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CHURCH OF THE PALMS: $250k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS FOR THE PRESERVATION CZ CULTURE: $100k → 7%FITMONEY INC: $1.3M → 8%BOYS GIRLSCLUB OF BROCTON: $5k → 8%NEWTON NORTH PTSO: $7k → 8%PUNCTUATE 4 PRODUCTIONS INC: $15k → 10%WOMENS FOUNDATION OF BOSTON: $25k → 16%Council for Economic Education: $1k → 17%HORIZON CIRCLE: $50k → 14%CONVENTION OF STATES FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10.0M → 11%WATER ORG: $150k → 15%SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND: $24.0M → 14%VICTORY JUNCTION: $150k → 14%ACE SCHOLARSHIPS: $100k → 8%INDEPENDENT WOMENS FORUM: $75k → 16%The Dorothy Koch Family Foundation: $50k → 20%MEDICAL COLLEGE-VA FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%FOSTERS OUTRIDERS FND: $50k → 5%THE SANDERS INSTITUTE: $100k → 10%LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS: $15k → 7%FITMONEY INC: $500k → 8%CLAY SOPER MEMORIAL FUND: $30k → 8%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $275k → 14%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $350k → 11%THE MISSION POSSIBLE IMPACT FUND: $250k → 14%VICTORY JUNCTION: $100k → 14%FOSTERS OUTRIDERS FND: $50k → 5%THE SANDERS INSTITUTE: $50k → 10%GOSNOLD INC: $50k → 8%Newton Schools foundation: $2k → 8%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $275k → 14%PATIENT RIGHTS ADVOCATE INC: $27.4M → 8%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%PATIENT RIGHTS ADVOCATE INC: $2.3M → 8%PATIENT RIGHTS ADVOCATE INC: $1.4M → 8%FITMONEY INC: $279k → 8%FITMONEY INC: $255k → 8%PATIENT RIGHTS ADVOCATE INC: $207k → 8%Fitmoney Inc: $100k → 8%FITMONEY INC: $100k → 8%NEWTON SCHOOLS PTSO: $20k → 8%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
NY
MA
WY
CO
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 8 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
20

Total granted

$46M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+3%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
Civil RightsPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PI
    PATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $31M · revenue ×25 · 72% of their budget
  • FI
    FITMONEY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +814% · 59% of their budget
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $900k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $24M
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE PALMS
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TM
    THE MISSION POSSIBLE IMPACT FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
3
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
4
New Schools Fund

To improve public education by identifying and supporting the most promising education ventures in the country, and creating a nationwide network of education entrepreneurs committed to closing the achievement gap.

Education
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
State Financial Officers Foundation Inc

To promote free market and free enterprise principles, educate both the public and state financial officers on the role of responsible financial management in a free market economy, and develop educational forums and communication plans…

Education
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
Cato Institute

The mission of the cato institute is to keep the principles, ideas, and moral case for liberty alive for future generations, while moving public policy in the direction of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.

Public Benefit
9
National Endowment for Democracy

Ned has a singular mission - advancing democracy in support of freedom around the world. our targeted, demand-driven small grants program responds to the needs of local ngos that defend human rights, strengthen independent media and civic…

Public Benefit
10
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
11
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council for Economic Education; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUND: $23,961,919 · OtherSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE FUNDNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,350,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONFITMONEY INC: $2,485,642 · OtherFITMONEY INC+16 more: $1,887,545 · OtherPATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC: $31,305,116 · HealthPATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INCCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $610,000 · Crime & LegalMYRIAD USA INC: $300,000 · InternationalWATERORG: $150,000 · InternationalVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLAY SOPER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Sanders Institute: $150,000 · Civil RightsIndependent Women's Forum: $75,000 · Civil RightsCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $50,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · Education
Other$38,685,106Health$31,305,116Crime & Legal$610,000International$450,000Youth Development$280,000Civil Rights$275,000Education$101,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATIENTRIGHTSADVOCATEORG INC: $31,305,116 over 4y, 72% of budgetFITMONEY INC: $2,485,642 over 6y, 59% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $610,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWATERORG: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Sanders Institute: $150,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDorothy Koch Family Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetGOSNOLD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLAY SOPER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Gosnold Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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Find your warmest path to Fisher Koch Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home