· Private foundation
Robert D Fisher Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arizona Law Enforcement Canine Asso | $50,000 |
| Cowboys for Kids | $20,000 |
| Sonoran Art League | $15,000 |
| Elephant Care Unchained | $15,000 |
| Southwest Kids Cancer Foundation | $15,000 |
| Phoenix Herpetological Society | $15,000 |
| EBeauty Community | $15,000 |
| Cave Creek Rodeo Days | $15,000 |
| Children's Oncology Camp Foundation | $10,000 |
| R&R Ranch | $10,000 |
| The Hangry Donkey Sanctuary Inc | $10,000 |
| Arizona Outdoor Adventures | $10,000 |
| Hospice of the Valley | $10,000 |
| Scholarship for Promising Futures | $10,000 |
| Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AOARIZONA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +3%
- TFTHE FETCH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +13% · 28% of their budget
- PHPHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- MSMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +198%
- RMRocky Mountain Elk Foundationone grant, 2018 · $25k
- AMArizona Mule Deer Organizationone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Animal rescue
Freedom Brothers Rescue and Recovery is a non-profit, no-kill, volunteer animal rescue and recovery organization serving the Phoenix Arizona area.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
Search and rescue of migrants stranded in the dessert providing first aid and water for their survival and guidance for safe arrival
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Large mammals, birds of prey, reptiles, amphibians, and other bird species. there is a full surgery area and recovery areas based on the species needs. the facility is supported by volunteers in addition to staff who are trained to the…
To locate, rescue, and recover lost and missing person on Native American Tribal Lands. By serving victims and families with empathy, compassion, and respect, we provide immediate hope, relief, and support during the agonizing trauma of…
Provides support for sugargliders
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is The Hangry Donkey Sanctuary Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 65 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 ARIZONA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FETCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENDER LITTLE HEARTS MINI TALES ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sonoran Arts League Inc ↗
- Who funds POLICE UNITY TOUR OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOY BUS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEED TO TABLE OREGON ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LOVEIAM INC ↗
- Who funds I Got This Foundation ↗
- Who funds Desert Foothills Choral Foundation ↗
- Who funds Walking Down Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds CAVE CREEK RODEO DAYS ↗
- Who funds Scriptures In Use ↗
- Who funds THE SILENT WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Fd · Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · Irving & Arline Gordon Memorial Fdn · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Jack Ingebritson Foundation Inc · Colten Cowell Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement
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 Robert D 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.