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Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn at a glance

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Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$287k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$505kHealth$231kCivil Rights$160kRecreation & Sports$138kHuman Services$100kEducation$98kCrime & Legal$87kEnvironment$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $198k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR ART & ADVOCACY$27,609
KIMBALL ARTS CENTER$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA$15,000
DIA ART FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$10,000
METRO MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$10,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$10,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT INC$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PEACE HOUSE INC: $20k → 5%PEACE HOUSE INC: $15k → 5%PEACE HOUSE INC: $15k → 5%PEACE HOUSE INC: $10k → 5%PEACE HOUSE INC: $5k → 5%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%PEACE HOUSE INC: $1k → 5%HUDSON GUILD: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $8k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 45 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
34

Total granted

$1.6M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    5× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +69%
  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +3%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +36%
  • YS
    YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE PARK CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
6
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
7
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
World Science Foundation

The world science festival is a multimedia organization producing original content straddling science, the arts, journalism and education. founded in 2008, wsf is viewed by many as the premier platform bringing the most transformative…

Science & Tech
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
11
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
12
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gambino Medical and Science Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 92 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
39/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU FOUNDATION: $105,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATIONTHE GAMBINO MEDICAL AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $47,500 · OtherTHE GAMBINO MEDICAL AND SCIENCE FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $37,500 · OtherTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · OtherRONALD MCD HOUSE OF NY: $35,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY: $34,500 · OtherCENTER FOR ART & ADVOCACY: $27,609 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $80,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTERPark City Education Foundation: $35,000 · Other+54 more: $345,590 · Other+54 moreWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $112,500 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN AR…DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $90,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTSundance Institute: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteKimball Art Center: $35,500 · Arts & CultureKimball Art CenterMuseum of Modern Art: $32,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $26,027 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $13,700 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…THE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthTHE THANC FO…CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S S…Peace House Inc: $66,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $62,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · International+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $46,100 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $43,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $100 · Crime & LegalJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $52,500 · PhilanthropyYOUTH WINTER SPORTS ALLIANCE: $25,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$822,699Arts & Culture$510,227Health$210,000Human Services$113,000International$107,500Crime & Legal$89,700Philanthropy$87,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $112,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPeace House Inc: $66,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THANC FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GAMBINO MEDICAL AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $46,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $43,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKimball Art Center: $35,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $26,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH WINTER SPORTS ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEATS Park City: $12,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CITY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $7,700 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding America: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY FILM COUNCIL: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $6,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLISTENERS COMMUNITY RADIO OF UTAH INC: $2,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sad Foundation IncPromontory FoundationSsir Cares IncMightycause Charitabl…The Jacquelyn & Grego…Park City Community F…George S and Dolores …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Garen Family Foundati…The McGuire Family Fo…Hodgman Family Founda…
Sad Foundation IncUT22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sad Foundation Inc · Promontory Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Garen Family Foundation · The McGuire Family Foundation · Hodgman Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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