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Fishman 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
- Under $10k17 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $945k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALEPH INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| THE DOE FUND | $150,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $125,000 |
| DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| THE SPOT | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN MAINE CASCO BAY | $60,000 |
| CUSHMAN SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| 317 ST MAIN COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $50,000 |
| IDEA EXCHANGE UNIV OF MIAMI DEPT OF MEDICINE | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI OF STAMFORD | $50,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE IN NEW YORK | $45,000 |
| VERMONT STUDIO CENTER | $31,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 15 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $437k 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
THE DOE FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +37%- TATHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +123%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TNTHE NY COMMUNITY TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $100k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -40%- TCTHE CARLEBACH SHUL CONGREGATION KEHILATH JACOBone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Harm Reduction Therapeutics Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 137 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 DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE TOBY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · AIDS United · The Schwedel Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Drug Policy Alliance · The Mac AIDS Fund · The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Fjc · The Rockefeller 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 Fishman 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Care Resource Community Health Centers Incorporated — 4% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Cushman School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 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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