· Private foundation
Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $610k
- $250k+1 grant · $540k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $540,000 |
| CRISTO REY FORT WORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH | $150,000 |
| FORT WORTH OPERA | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $100,000 |
| TEXAS BALLET THEATER FORT WORTH | $50,000 |
| THE CLIBURN | $30,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY | $20,000 |
| AMPHIBIAN STAGE PRODUCTIONS | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF TARRANT CO | $10,000 |
| BALLET CONCERTO FORT WORTH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS | $10,000 |
| JEWEL CHARITY | $10,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS | $10,000 |
| TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FWFort Worth Opera Association Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $335k · revenue +13%
- VCVan Cliburn Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +240%
- TYThe YouthVantage Alliance3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR LEARNING DIFFERENCESone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
Cca's mission is to assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive early education and development services.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To bring collaborative, systemic change for students in order to improve overall quality of life and to position tarrant county as a leading producer of high-quality talent.
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
Alamo City Performing Arts Association is dedicated to inclusive education in the art of dance, theater and music; in order to help instill and perpetuate a genuine appreciation of the performing arts in our community through educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The YouthVantage Alliance ↗
- Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Healthcare of Texas ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NEW KEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · R4 Foundation · Paul E Andrews Jr Foundation · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · The Roach Foundation Inc · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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