Georgia · Private foundation
Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $180
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,030
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $65k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $5k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $940 | 60% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $9k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $2k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $55k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $152k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $166k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maimonides School | $210,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Temima the Richard and Jean Katz High School for Girls Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Congregation Bais Torah | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Aishel House Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atlanta Scholars Kollel Inc | $1,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation with peer funders
About Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation
- How much does Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation give?
- Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $4,910 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Human Services (12%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maimonides School ($210k), Temima the Richard and Jean Katz High School for Girls Inc ($35k), Congregation Bais Torah ($8k).
- Does Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation 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 Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation based?
- Josef and Elaine Fischer Foundation is based in GA.
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