· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +50%
- QFQUARRY FARM LEGACY PRESERVATION CAMone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH JACOBone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds YALEWOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE JV FLETCHER LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PORT ANGELES LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE CATTICUS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renee B Fisher Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Neighborhood Music School Inc: 4% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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