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Phillip W Fisher Support Foundation

To support the jewish community and the community as a whole.

$720k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$718kHealth$546kYouth Development$395kReligion$324kCommunity Improvement$293kEducation$178kRecreation & Sports$149kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $666,833 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $720,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $380k
$31,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$115,000
DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA$100,000
SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC$65,000
BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK$50,000
CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$43,333
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$40,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$35,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL$31,000
STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC$30,000
THE EDISON INSTITUTE$30,000
INVEST FOR BETTER INC$25,000
REALIZE IMPACT$12,500
POPE FRANCIS CENTER$12,500
DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $494k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $80k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $13k → 21%REALIZE IMPACT: $13k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $13k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $13k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $95k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $14k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $5k → 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

WA
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
DC
FL

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 7% of Phillip W Fisher Support Foundation’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.

Phillip W Fisher Support Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 22 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
16

Total granted

$3.6M
$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

82%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +22%
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $400k · revenue +46%
  • SF
    STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BI
    BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HUMANS FIRST DETROIT
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2019 · $30k

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.

1
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
2
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
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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4
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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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
7
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
10
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

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11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is The Urban Land Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr18%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr18%56%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/44
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,812

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

38 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. 38 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,200,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $400,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIATHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $160,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INCAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS — $85,000 · Arts & CultureSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $70,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $29,750 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $396,100 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL IMPACT INVESTI…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $125,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION …Boston Foundation Inc — $120,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncMISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMISSION INVESTORS EXC…BRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDA…+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL — $255,000 · HealthWILLIAM BEAU…BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $210,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEA…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $16,000 · HealthSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $335,000 · Human ServicesSTARFISH FA…Realize Impact — $92,500 · Human ServicesRealize Imp…POPE FRANCIS CENTER — $37,500 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCI…THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $19,400 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesTEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT — $208,500 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL O…NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BASILICA PARISH ROYAL OAK — $105,000 · OtherNATIONAL SHRINE…SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC — $65,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST SOLUT…CITY YEAR INC — $35,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $30,000 · OtherCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $88,333 · OtherCAREHOUSE OF OA…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $51,000 · OtherJEWISH AGENCY F…+6 more — $77,500 · Other+6 moreINVEST FOR BETTER INC — $70,000 · Community ImprovementHUMANS FIRST DETROIT — $50,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Community ImprovementIndiana University Foundation — $70,000 · EducationALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $30,000 · EducationMath Corps — $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,945,250Philanthropy$926,100Health$506,000Human Services$494,400Other$660,333Community Improvement$135,000Education$110,000

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 budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,200,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $400,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $396,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $335,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL — $255,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetRealize Impact — $92,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $88,333 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS — $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINVEST FOR BETTER INC — $70,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL — $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES IMPACT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHUMANS FIRST DETROIT — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $19,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $17,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSHOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMath Corps — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FUTURES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Kresge FoundationFord PhilanthropyDte Energy FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…Community Foundation …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationJohn D and Catherine …Harold and Penny B Bl…The Jewish Fund
The Kresge FoundationMI28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Dte Energy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Jewish Fund

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 Phillip W Fisher Support 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Phillip W Fisher Support Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Phillip W Fisher Support Foundation 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 44 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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