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Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2023
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$129k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202314$68k21%
FY202214$75k21%
FY20211$1000%
FY202019$59k21%
FY201920$66k30%
FY201817$64k53%
FY201712$57kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$272kArts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$25kEducation$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Far Brook School$13,25060%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$9,50160%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$9,00060%
New York Public Radio$6,50060%
Mary McDowell Friends School$3,4053n/a
The Berkeley Carroll School$3,00030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$2,00010%
Dorrance Dance Incorporated$1,50020%
Waterorg$1,00010%
Interfaith Food Pantry Inc$1,00010%
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All grantees of Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Far Brook School$13,25060%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$9,50160%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$9,00060%
New York Public Radio$6,50060%
Mary McDowell Friends School$3,4053n/a
The Berkeley Carroll School$3,00030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$2,00010%
Dorrance Dance Incorporated$1,50020%
Waterorg$1,00010%
Interfaith Food Pantry Inc$1,00010%
Craft in America$25010%
Morris County Historical Society$20010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York$10010%

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($339k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFar Brook School: $13,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $9,501 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Berkeley Carroll School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorrance Dance Incorporated: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaterorg: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraft in America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorris County Historical Society: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater New York: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust

How much does Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust give?
Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $67,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (70%), Arts & Culture (7%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Far Brook School ($13k), Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ($10k), Citymeals-On-Wheels ($9k).
Does Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust 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 Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust based?
Irene S & Barry L Fisher Charitable Trust is based in NJ.

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 37 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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