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Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2022
24
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$540k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2022.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MEducation$848kArts & Culture$628kPhilanthropy$570kHuman Services$219kHealth$60kYouth Development$60kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2022 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $610k
  • $250k+1 grant · $540k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JEWEL CHARITY$10,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS$10,000
COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS$10,000
BALLET CONCERTO FORT WORTH$10,000
UNITED WAY OF TARRANT CO$10,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $5k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $10k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $10k → 11%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
1

Total granted

$1.9M
$5k

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • FW
    Fort Worth Opera Association Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $335k · revenue +13%
  • VC
    Van Cliburn Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +240%
  • TY
    The YouthVantage Alliance
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR LEARNING DIFFERENCES
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Texas Christian University

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…

Education
2
Texas Wesleyan University

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…

Education
3
Chicago Opera Theater

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.

Arts & Culture
4
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
5
Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health
6
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc

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)

Arts & Culture
7
Child Care Associates

Cca's mission is to assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive early education and development services.

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8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
Fort Worth Cradle to Career

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.

Youth Development
10
Midland Festival Ballet

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
12
Alamo City Performing Arts Association

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRISTO REY FORT WORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $600,000 · OtherCRISTO REY FORT WORTH HIGH SCHOOLCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTH: $405,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FORT WORTHTEXAS BALLET THEATER FORT WORTH: $140,000 · OtherTEXAS BALLET THEATER FORT WORTHThe YouthVantage Alliance: $60,000 · Other+7 more: $82,000 · Other+7 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,060,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac+2 more: $17,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $540,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $335,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth Oper…Van Cliburn Foundation Inc: $70,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn Fou…AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAMPHIBIAN PRODU…+2 more: $16,500 · Arts & CultureCommunity Healthcare of Texas: $30,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Health
Other$1,287,000Education$1,077,500Philanthropy$570,000Arts & Culture$466,500Human Services$60,000Health$7,500

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,060,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $540,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $335,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe YouthVantage Alliance: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREATER FORT WORTH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW KEY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …Amon G Carter Foundat…Crystelle Waggoner Ch…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Mary Potishman Lard T…Amon G Carter-Star Te…R4 FoundationPaul E Andrews Jr Fou…Ann L Rhodes and Caro…The Roach Foundation …Garvey Texas Foundati…
Sid W Richardson FoundationTX30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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