· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CITY OF MT WASHINGTON KY | $250,000 |
| COVINGTON PARTNERS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Fischer Family Foundation 2008’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
117 repeat relationships: 105 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 51 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- PWPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INCone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +5%
- UWUnited Way of Central Indianaone grant, 2022 · $367k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
120 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. 120 of the 305 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEAID GEORGIA 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fischer Family Foundation 2008. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Bay Education Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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