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Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$288k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 30
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HealthReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$256k5%
FY202427$263k11%
FY202328$228k18%
FY202224$213k21%
FY202126$206k0%
FY202030$176k30%
FY201926$149kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$561kAnimals$244kYouth Development$240kEnvironment$209kHuman Services$133kInternational$71kEducation$55kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc$210,00070%
Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc$170,00070%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$150,00070%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$121,00070%
Samaritan's Purse$67,50050%
Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc$55,00071%
The Children's Home Society of Florida$55,00070%
The Villages Regional Hospital Auxiliary Inc$45,00041%
United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc$40,00060%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$35,00030%
Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc$35,00070%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$33,00050%
Central Florida Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc$30,00061%
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$30,00030%
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund$30,00060%
Alzheimer's Community Care Inc$21,00030%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association$20,0002n/a
Florida Center for the Blind Inc$15,00051%
Operation Homefront Inc$15,00030%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida$12,00060%
Step Up for Students - Florida Inc$10,00030%
Lighthouse Central Florida Inc$9,00030%
The Salvation Army$9,0003n/a
Canine Assisted Therapy Inc$7,00070%
Humane Societyspca of Sumter County Inc$6,00020%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$5,00010%
Sunshine Cathedral Foundation Inc$5,00012%
Bay Street Players Inc$3,50070%
Ocala Civic Theatre Inc$3,00060%
Mercy Corps$3,00010%
Benevolent Healthcare Foundation$2,50010%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc$2,50010%
Significant Productions Inc$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($234k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $210,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $121,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of Florida: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Villages Regional Hospital Auxiliary Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Florida Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Association Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Community Care Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Center for the Blind Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStep Up for Students - Florida Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Central Florida Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCanine Assisted Therapy Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHumane Societyspca of Sumter County Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunshine Cathedral Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBay Street Players Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOcala Civic Theatre Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBenevolent Healthcare Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Publix Super Markets Charities IncFL16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found

How much does Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found give?
Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found reported 23 grants totaling $287,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Animals (15%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ($210k), Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ($170k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($150k).
Does Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Publix Super Markets Charities Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta.
Where is Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found based?
Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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