California · Nonprofit
FISHER ART FOUNDATION
FISHER ART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,420,000 to it, the largest being DORIS & DONALD FISHER FOUNDATION ($1,420,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FISHER ART FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Metta Fundlocal
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio match
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $700k → $720k.
From the IRS filings of FISHER ART FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of FISHER ART FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Metta FundlocalCA · funds 97 organizations near you
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Souls Grown Deep Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teiger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex Katz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jay DeFeo Foundation co Fontanello Duffield & Otakeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Hammersley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael Asher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Broad Art Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FISHER ART FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISHER ART FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FISHER ART FOUNDATION?
- FISHER ART FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,420,000 to it, the largest being DORIS & DONALD FISHER FOUNDATION ($1,420,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FISHER ART FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,420,000 in grants to FISHER ART FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FISHER ART FOUNDATION?
- DORIS & DONALD FISHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FISHER ART FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing