· Private foundation
Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC | $60,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES | $35,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $32,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION FLORIDA CHAPTER | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| VILLAGES REGIONAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY LITERACY COALITION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found’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.
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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +24%
- FSFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +8%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- KUKEISER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2019 · $10k
- AAALS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…
Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
The mission of the florida association of community health centers, inc. is to advance florida's community health centers through resource development, partnerships, technical assistance, and increased community awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 51 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 Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds The Villages Regional Hospital Auxiliary Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds STEP UP FOR STUDENTS - FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTED THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETYSPCA OF SUMTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Street Players Inc — 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.