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.

Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found

Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found at a glance

· Private foundation

Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$288k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% 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

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $36k
$10k–50k8 grants · $142k
$50k–250k2 grants · $110k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WORLD WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$15,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC	$15,000
ALS ASSOCIATION FLORIDA CHAPTER	$15,000
VILLAGES REGIONAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH	$10,000
FLORIDA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION	$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY	$5,000
AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION	$5,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY LITERACY COALITION	$5,000
CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC	$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Foundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 36 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+21%

Still filing today

72%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

SG
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +24%
FS
Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +8%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +99%

Funded once

KU
KEISER UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $10k
PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
one grant, 2019 · $10k
AA
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF CENTRALNORTH
one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

04Its field

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.

University of Florida Health Corporation

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,…

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Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

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.

Human Services

Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

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…

Health

The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc

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…

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The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.

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Hospice of Martin & St Lucie Inc

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…

Human Services

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

Hospice of the Florida Keys Inc

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.

Human Services

Flagler Hospital Inc

Health

Hospice of the Treasure Coast Inc

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.

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Florida Association of Community Health Centers Inc

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.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida; 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.

05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 51 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

21/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$620,250Health$351,500Human Services$341,000Youth Development$170,000Philanthropy$75,000Religion$67,500Education$45,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

8report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home