· Private foundation
The Jill and Mark Fishman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OR GREATER PHILA | $499,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $302,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN | $250,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS | $180,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OFANIM | $125,000 |
| EMILY'S ENTOURAGE | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $30,000 |
| WISTAR INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| HAR ZION TEMPLE | $25,000 |
| WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 36% 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 12 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA5× · 2019–2023 · $5.4M · revenue +59%
- CFCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $795k · revenue +45%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC3× · 2019–2021 · $672k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $125k
- DODEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY UPENNone grant, 2022 · $125k
- BSBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIESone grant, 2023 · $125k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 72 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
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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Chevra Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds DELIVERING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JEVS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
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 Saramar Charitable Fund · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Tzedakah Foundation · The Specter Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · The Snider Foundation · Samuel D Cozen Memorial Fund · Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Honickman Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Yetta Deitch Novotny Charitable Trust 9/24/90
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 Jill and Mark Fishman Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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