Massachusetts · Private foundation
Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $973k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $48,659
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $243,293
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $498k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $973k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $1.3M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $78k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $71k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $50k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $48k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $45k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Health Network | $604,174 | 8 | 3% |
| Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network | $257,970 | 8 | 0% |
| Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites | $235,470 | 7 | 7% |
| Allentown Band Inc | $131,235 | 8 | 24% |
| Dana Hall School | $129,235 | 8 | 0% |
| Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank | $62,694 | 8 | 4% |
| General Society of Mayflower Descendants | $46,847 | 7 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendents | $41,847 | 7 | 1% |
| Simmons University | $35,347 | 7 | 0% |
| Allentown School District Foundation | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Health Network | $604,174 | 8 | 3% |
| Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network | $257,970 | 8 | 0% |
| Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites | $235,470 | 7 | 7% |
| Allentown Band Inc | $131,235 | 8 | 24% |
| Dana Hall School | $129,235 | 8 | 0% |
| Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank | $62,694 | 8 | 4% |
| General Society of Mayflower Descendants | $46,847 | 7 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendents | $41,847 | 7 | 1% |
| Simmons University | $35,347 | 7 | 0% |
| Allentown School District Foundation | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lehigh County Historical Society | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Buehler Memorial Trust Ua · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation
- How much does Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation give?
- Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $973,173 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Arts & Culture (27%), Education (21%).
- Who are Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lehigh Valley Health Network ($604k), Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network ($258k), Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites ($235k).
- Does Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Ppl Foundation, Harry C Trexler Estate.
- Where is Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation based?
- Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation is based in MA.
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