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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$278k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM RODFE ZEDE$38,377
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM RODFE ZEDE$17,200
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C$10,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL$5,000
NCH HEALTHCARE$5,000
HARTFORD HOSPITAL$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS JAMAICA$3,000
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL$3,000
ARTIS NAPLES$2,000
IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION$1,000
KATHERINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CTR$1,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING$1,000
Community Foundation of Collier Cou$1,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$614k · 16 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$614k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+35%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KO
    KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +32%
  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +112%
  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HA
    one grant, 2019 · $51k
  • IR
    INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +159%
  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
3
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
6
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
10
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middlesex Hospital; the most unlike its peers is The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C: $132,927 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX CCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM RODFE ZEDE: $101,127 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM RODFE ZEDECOMMUNITY FOUND OF MIDDLESEX CNTY: $99,870 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUND OF MIDDLESEX CNTYJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HA: $50,562 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · Other+10 more: $40,100 · Other+10 moreHartford Hospital: $69,000 · HealthHartford HospitalYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HO…NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $15,000 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SY…MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $4,000 · HealthKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $92,990 · EducationKINGSWOOD OXFOR…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationARTIS-NAPLES INC: $16,800 · Arts & CultureIVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$441,586Health$108,000Education$93,990Arts & Culture$43,800International$5,000Philanthropy$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Jamaica Inc ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fischbach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fischbach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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