· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE SPOT | $100,000 |
| DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN MAINE CASCO BAY | $60,000 |
| CUSHMAN SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI OF STAMFORD | $50,000 |
| 317 ST MAIN COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $50,000 |
| IDEA EXCHANGE UNIV OF MIAMI DEPT OF MEDICINE | $50,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE IN NEW YORK | $45,000 |
| VERMONT STUDIO CENTER | $31,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE DOE FUND INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +37%- TATHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +123%
- VSVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $236k · revenue +120%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -40%- TNTHE NY COMMUNITY TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TCTHE CARLEBACH SHUL CONGREGATION KEHILATH JACOBone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 137 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CARE RESOURCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fishman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fishman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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