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Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc

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.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
189
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$25MInternational$11MArts & Culture$8.1MHuman Services$6.9MHealth$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.9MYouth Development$1.6MEducation$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.3MOther$21M
02FY2024 · 189 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k80 grants · $8.1M
  • $250k+13 grants · $5.8M
$47,908
Median grant
9
States reached
$280M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$1,290,000
EVERYBODY READY$737,110
DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC DBA MI EARLY YEARS$452,911
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$450,000
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION$400,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL$400,000
UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION$400,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES$300,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$300,000
DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC DBA MI EARLY YEARS$274,400
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$250,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL$250,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION MAX M FISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES$225,750
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL-NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL$220,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $221k → 21%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 21%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%EVERYBODY READY: $527k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $68k → 21%EVERYBODY READY: $448k → 21%EVERYBODY READY: $425k → 21%EVERYBODY READY: $317k → 21%EVERYBODY READY: $250k → 21%EVERYBODY READY: $60k → 21%EVERYBODY READY: $36k → 21%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $69k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM INC: $66k → 17%EVERYBODY READY: $737k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $100k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $100k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $100k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $72k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $45k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $209k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $209k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $209k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $200k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $199k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $166k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $135k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $120k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $110k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $96k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $94k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $93k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $50k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $50k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $49k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $49k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $49k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $48k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $45k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC: $42k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $38k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $33k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $32k → 21%BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE: $32k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$53M · 120 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

120 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
53

Total granted

$53M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +1%
  • ER
    Everybody Ready Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +0% · 37% of their budget
  • DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $275k
  • SF
    STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $271k · revenue +11%
  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $232k · revenue +73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
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Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights
3
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
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Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
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The Detroit Creativity Project

The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.

Unclassified
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The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
9
Endeavor Detroit

Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…

Community Improvement
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Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Michigan Israel Business Accelerator

Accelerating michigan's economic growth, one israeli innovation at a time.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is The Impact Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Ymca Youth DevelopmentWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Local History MuseumsYouth Development CentersYouth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr18%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr18%29%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/146
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,710

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

133 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. 133 of the 202 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/133
Grantees still filing
93/133
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $8,023,833 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROITCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $5,163,251 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $4,620,421 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH…UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $3,600,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATIONJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $1,518,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORKTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,039,907 · Philanthropy+15 more — $1,142,055 · PhilanthropyJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL — $2,465,166 · OtherJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAELILLINOIS FINANCE FUND — $1,325,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORR SHALOM — $1,298,773 · OtherDEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC DBA MI EARLY YEARS — $1,215,806 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $1,150,000 · OtherTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $900,000 · OtherBRILLIANT DETROIT — $1,030,000 · OtherWELLSPRING — $967,500 · OtherUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $845,000 · Other+123 more — $13,812,842 · Other+123 moreJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $8,752,073 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY …BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISR…+2 more — $274,150 · InternationalDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,437,200 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYM…SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $768,000 · Arts & CultureSPHINX ORGA…DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $739,511 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUB…Living Arts — $551,634 · Arts & CultureLiving ArtsDETROIT OPERA — $453,325 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPE…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $385,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $300,000 · Arts & Culture+19 more — $2,447,867 · Arts & Culture+19 moreEverybody Ready Inc — $2,798,482 · Human ServicesEverybody…BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC — $2,677,659 · Human ServicesBRIGHTMOO…MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $520,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN …Detroit Parent Network — $416,673 · Human ServicesDetroit P…STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $271,309 · Human Services+5 more — $236,689 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $3,110,946 · Health+3 more — $68,500 · HealthGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,117,500 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $550,000 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $217,500 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$25,107,967Other$25,010,087International$10,526,223Arts & Culture$8,082,537Human Services$6,920,812Health$3,179,446Food & Nutrition$1,885,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $8,752,073 over 3y, 12% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $8,023,833 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $5,163,251 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $4,620,421 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $3,600,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $3,110,946 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetEverybody Ready Inc — $2,798,482 over 5y, 37% of budgetBRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC — $2,677,659 over 5y, 62% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,437,200 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $1,518,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,117,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $1,039,907 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $1,030,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetWELLSPRING — $967,500 over 5y, 33% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $900,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $845,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $768,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $739,511 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLiving Arts — $551,634 over 5y, 21% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $550,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $528,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $520,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $500,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $454,478 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDETROIT OPERA — $453,325 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $449,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetDetroit Parent Network — $416,673 over 5y, 13% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $385,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE — $375,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $350,400 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFRESH AIR SOCIETY — $350,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYAD EZRA — $326,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budget826 MICHIGAN INC — $319,334 over 5y, 13% of budgetCONNECT DETROIT — $300,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $300,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $300,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONETABLE INC — $280,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $271,309 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHERITAGE WORKS — $260,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT — $255,422 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $231,990 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $224,150 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $222,875 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $217,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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 JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Everybody Ready Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
  • Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds Living Arts ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds THE BNAI BRITH HILLEL FOUNDATION AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Parent Network ↗
  • Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Kresge FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…The Fred & Barbara Er…Dte Energy FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationHudson-Webber Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…CulturesourceMcGregor FundFord PhilanthropyUnited Way for Southe…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI79.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Culturesource · McGregor Fund · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan

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 Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Center for Child Counseling Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
28report 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

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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How do I get to Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 202 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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