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The Errett Fisher Foundation
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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $887k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHALOM PROJECT | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $150,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UCSB FOUNDATION | $112,500 |
| WAKE FOREST INSTITUTE OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE | $99,306 |
| CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE | $75,000 |
| CAL POLY CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING DEPT | $50,000 |
| IFB SOLUTIONS AKA INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| NC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS | $30,000 |
| DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA | $20,000 |
| GREENEST | $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, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k 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
- TSTHE SHALOM PROJECT INC2× · 2019–2025 · $500k · revenue +73% · 49% of their budget
DIRECT RELIEF3× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +94%- UWUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $265k · revenue +86% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- IFINDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND SOLUTIONSone grant, 2024 · $150k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +141%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
United way of forsyth county is a catalyst for strengthening our community by identifying and addressing its most significant needs through alignment of resources and strategic partnerships to achieve measureable, lasting impact.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
The mission of united way of the inland valleys is to unite people, ideas, and resources with our community to improve lives. united way fights for the education, financial stability, and housing of every person in our community. uwiv…
United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions.continued on schedule o.united way was founded 90 years ago in mecklenburg…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 THE SHALOM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds NC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS (NCCLO) ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Errett Fisher Foundation 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.
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