Maryland · 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $254,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $601k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $553k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $529k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $1.4M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $1.9M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $534k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $494k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annapolis Opera Company | $1,633,500 | 9 | 69% |
| Scenic Rivers Land Trust Inc | $1,456,237 | 9 | 58% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $705,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Inc | $580,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Good Samaritan Haven Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc | $182,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Vermont Land Trust Inc | $108,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $102,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lymphoma Research Foundation | $84,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Camp Thorpe Inc | $80,500 | 6 | 12% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($877k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation
- How much does Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation give?
- Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $1,299,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Environment (31%), Health (17%).
- Who are Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Annapolis Opera Company ($1.6M), Scenic Rivers Land Trust Inc ($1.5M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($705k).
- Does Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher 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 Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation based?
- Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation is based in MD.
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