· Private foundation
The Fisher Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kennedy's Disease Assoc | $58,500 |
| Bethel Baptist Church | $30,000 |
| St Mark's Lutheran Church | $28,002 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| Calvary Baptist Church | $11,000 |
| Foundation for National Institute of Health | $5,000 |
| Roanoke College | $2,500 |
| Salem Museum | $2,500 |
| Thursday Morning Music Club | $2,500 |
| First Christian Church | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Community Christmas Store | $898 |
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 (FY17–17, $898) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 13 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
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fisher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fisher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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