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The Fischer Family Foundation 2008
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $930k
- $50k–250k74 grants · $6.4M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATENKY | $2,300,000 |
| WELCOME HOUSE | $865,000 |
| BRIGHTON CENTER | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER DAYTON | $500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $470,000 |
| BRIGHTON CENTER | $465,000 |
| VILLA MADONNA ACADEMY | $359,250 |
| LEARNING GROVE | $310,000 |
| THE CITY OF SHEPHERDSVILLE | $250,000 |
| COVINGTON PARTNERS | $250,000 |
| CITY OF MT WASHINGTON KY | $250,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $205,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $200,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CINN | $200,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $187,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Fischer Family Foundation 2008’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- ENEDUCATE NKY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +403%
- BCBrighton Center Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +31%
- WHWELCOME HOUSE INC3× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +107%
Funded once
- WHWelcome Houseone grant, 2020 · $1.7M
- RCRiley Children's Foundationone grant, 2022 · $500k
- PWPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INCone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +5%
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.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
Cincinnati works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. we provide free training and coaching services.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winshape Foundationinc. 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 38 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
120 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. 120 of the 328 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 EDUCATE NKY INC ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEAID GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOE BURROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Found Village ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Butler Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Millstone 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 Fischer Family Foundation 2008 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Bay Education Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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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