· Private foundation
Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
- $250k+2 grants · $960k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF G | $680,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL | $84,787 |
| FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PEQUOT LIBRARY | $20,697 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRA | $15,000 |
| MEDIA UPPER PROVIENCE LIBRARY | $12,750 |
| FRIENDS OF JV FLETCHER LIBRARY | $1,300 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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; $24k 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
- HGHELENA GROUP FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $320k · revenue +10%
- NMNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC5× · 2018–2023 · $272k · revenue +38%
- FMFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $249k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +165%
- QFQUARRY FARM LEGACY PRESERVATION CAMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH JACOBone grant, 2021 · $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.
Advocacy for a strong library system in Long Beach
To work collaboratively with the New Haven Free Public Library to raise funds to support major initiatives and innovative projects that enhance the services of the Library to the residents of New Haven.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
We are a volunteer, community-based organization that advocates for the sacramento public library and helps raise funds for its collection, services, and facilities.
The Berkeley Public Library Foundation (BPLF) amplifies the public investment to make a great public library extraordinary. To that end, we provide vital funds and ongoing advocacy to advance the Library's mission, vision, and strategic…
The Friends of the Jewish Community Library supports the activities of the Jewish Community Library.
To support library efforts, maintaining an association of persons interested in the library,promoting increased knowledge and understandingog library functions, resources, and services, stimulating increased financial support, and…
Provide financial support to the Goleta Valley Library Goleta CA.
To enhance the quality of life of our community by inspiring lifelong learning, providing free and open access to information, and fostering community connections.
Maintain high levels of library services, fund grants for library materials, furniture and personnel support, Inform community of library resources and services, provide medium for gift giving and volunteer opportunities to Saratoga…
The Friends of the Hilton Head Library was organized as a non-profit organization to promote literacy and encourage the pursuit of life long learning through use of the library's resources. We raise funds to help our library be the…
A general library organized and operated for literary purposes. The members of the association seek to make a difference through literature and ideas, advancing interest in the written word, and celebrating the best in literary achievement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Library of Hawaii and the most unlike its peers is Connecticut Science Fair Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELENA GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Friends of the Bancroft Library ↗
- Who funds MEDIA UPPER PROVIDENCE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Library of Hawaii ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YALEWOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE JV FLETCHER LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATTICUS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc 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.
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 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.