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The Fisher Family Foundation

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.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$21kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$2kPhilanthropy$2kHousing & Shelter$1kHealth$1kCrime & Legal$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$580k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
CASADY ANNUAL FUND$1,000
Individual grant recipient$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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILDREN'S RANCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
CA
CO
MD
AR
DC
OK
GA
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13k · 4 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$13k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-35%
0%

Still filing today

0%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CS
    CASADY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k
  • EC
    EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $2k
  • CA
    CASADY ANNUAL FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k

Funded once

  • BE
    BYNG EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • CM
    Colorado Mountain Bike Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +79%
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
Casa for Kids Inc

Court appointed special advocates are trained community volunteers appointed by a judge to speak up for abused and neglected children in the court system.

Civil Rights
2
Oklahoma Casa Association Inc

To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.

Human Services
3
Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal
4
Casa of Southern Oklahoma Inc

Solicit, train & direct activities of court-appointed volunteer advocates for children in cases involving child abuse and neglect. assist in direct expense needs of individual children in court-appointed cases.

Civil Rights
5
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

—
6
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
7
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
8
Children At Risk

Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…

Crime & Legal
9
Center for Conflict Resolution

The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.

Crime & Legal
10
Child Advocacy Center of Central Ok Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…

Human Services
11
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

—
12
Community Affordable Residences Enterprise Inc

To create an equitable and just community through high quality affordable housing and transformative resident services. We envision a community where an affordable home is available to everyone.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Ranch Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Mountain Bike Association. 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

8 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. 8 of the 22 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)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASADY SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherCASADY SCHOOLBYNG EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDA: $5,000 · OtherBYNG EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDAEAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $2,439 · OtherEAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSECASADY ANNUAL FUND: $2,000 · OtherCASADY ANNUAL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF: $2,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF+7 more: $5,750 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,000 · Education22nd Judicial District CASA Inc: $250 · EducationPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $2,000 · InternationalColorado Mountain Bike Association: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsOKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$30,689Education$2,250International$2,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Crime & Legal$2,000Youth Development$2,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Mountain Bike Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget22nd Judicial District CASA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Mountain Bike Association ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds 22nd Judicial District CASA Inc ↗

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Fisher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fisher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Oklahoma City Family Justice Center Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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