· Private foundation
Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+3 grants · $754k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERSHED STEWARDS ACADEMY | $254,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY | $250,000 |
| MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS | $250,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN | $150,000 |
| SCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | $30,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $18,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY MDDC | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PETER A KRUSCH NATURE PRESERVE | $12,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $10,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
87 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- AOANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +62% · 69% of their budget
- SRSCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +189% · 58% of their budget
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $705k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- VAVT ASSOCIATION OF SNOW TRAVELERS INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pie R Squared Inc. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
89 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. 89 of the 130 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 ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP THORPE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL(USA)INC ↗
- Who funds OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OYSTER RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Helena Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Lintilhac 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 Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
- Cooperative Development Institute Inc — 58% of income from government
- Aware Inc — 58% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Vt Association of Snow Travelers Inc — 26% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc — 19% of income from government
- Local Motion Inc — 19% of income from government
- Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation — 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Arts Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy — 3% of income from government
- Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc — 3% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Center for Arts & Learning Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Onion River Community Access Media — 0% of income from government
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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