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The Fischbach 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.

$98k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$38,377
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$278k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Fischbach Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$97k7%
FY202414$114k7%
FY202316$58k19%
FY202215$65k20%
FY202114$95k7%
FY202013$62k15%
FY201912$94k42%
FY20189$44k0%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$163kArts & Culture$154kPhilanthropy$142kHealth$112kEducation$96kHuman Services$5kInternational$5kEnvironment$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($426k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fischbach Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKingswood Oxford School Inc: $92,990 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHartford Hospital: $69,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYale New Haven Hospital: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $16,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNch Healthcare System Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIvoryton Playhouse Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $7,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIntegrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiddlesex Hospital: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Connecticut River Foundation at Steamboat Dock Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRye Country Day School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Manatee Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Ibm International FoundationNY15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Kitchings Family Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Fischbach Foundation

How much does The Fischbach Foundation give?
The Fischbach Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $98,077 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Fischbach Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Arts & Culture (22%), Philanthropy (20%).
Who are The Fischbach Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kingswood Oxford School Inc ($93k), Hartford Hospital ($69k), Yale New Haven Hospital ($20k).
Does The Fischbach Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Fischbach Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fischbach Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Kitchings Family Foundation, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Where is The Fischbach Foundation based?
The Fischbach Foundation is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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