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William a Fisher II Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA FOOD PROJECT | $7,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN | $4,500 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE | $2,500 |
| NMC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED | $1,000 |
| CROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| CROSSHATCH CENTER FOR ART & EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| TOP OF MICHIGAN TRAILS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| FRESHWATER FUTURE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- WRWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +56%
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +60%
- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- PSPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k
- NFNCMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
To help provide safe, accessible, and affordable housing in Northwest Michigan.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To provide Northeast Michigan with referrals and information to assist with essential needs.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Manna Food Project Inc Dba - the Manna Food Project and the most unlike its peers is Thoreau College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Top of Michigan Trails Council ↗
- Who funds MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THOREAU COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
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: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Oleson Foundation · William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundation · Triford Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 William a Fisher II Family 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.
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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