· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| TOP OF MICHIGAN TRAILS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| FRESHWATER FUTURE | $1,000 |
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED | $1,000 |
| CROSSHATCH CENTER FOR ART & EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| CROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
- 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 TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THOREAU COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William a Fisher II Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William a Fisher II Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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