New York · Private foundation
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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Fishman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.5M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.5M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $945k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $998k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Policy Alliance | $1,350,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Doe Fund Inc | $1,275,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Aleph Institute Inc | $1,215,200 | 8 | 4% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $1,027,127 | 8 | 0% |
| Vermont Studio Center Inc | $236,285 | 7 | 1% |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $220,000 | 6 | 0% |
| 317 Main St Community Center Inc | $190,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Independent Feature Project Inc | $190,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Dorot Inc | $185,500 | 8 | 0% |
| National Harm Reduction Coalition | $135,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fishman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Fishman Family Foundation
- How much does Fishman Family Foundation give?
- Fishman Family Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $1,652,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fishman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Religion (13%), International (12%).
- Who are Fishman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Drug Policy Alliance ($1.4M), The Doe Fund Inc ($1.3M), The Aleph Institute Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Fishman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fishman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fishman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, AIDS United.
- Where is Fishman Family Foundation based?
- Fishman Family Foundation is based in NY.
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