· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +162%
Funded once
- VAVT ASSOCIATION OF SNOW TRAVELERS INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
89 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. 89 of the 130 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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