Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FISHER COLLEGE
FISHER COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,183 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,756,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $70M
What Fisher College does
Mission
Fisher College enables students to earn a degree and seek a job upon graduation. Fisher College provides access to an education to approved students seeking the tools they need to achieve their goals. Dedicated, experienced, and caring educators allow Fisher College to accomplish its mission. The Fisher experience activates students to take ownership of their learning by preparing them to overcome challenges and pursue opportunities. Fisher's small-school setting allows students to form enduring and influential bonds with each other and with their professors. The Fisher community brings cultures and perspectives together in a dynamic arena. Fisher views ethical and moral development and public service as imperatives. Campus life enriches the Fisher community by offering students social and educational opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational/Instructional Services - As directed by the Fisher College Mission and its strategic goals, the academic program "changes lives" by enabling students to acquire knowledge and skills that will guide them through a lifetime of intellectual and professional pursuits. To that end, Fisher offers pragmatic and focused programs bolstered by an array of general education programs. Thus, Fisher graduates are prepared to be responsible and contributing members of society. The Fisher College Educational and Instructional Program Services are focused on the core values and objectives of higher education and the Mission of the College.
$10,336,832 spent$15,154,489 earned by the program46% of program spendingHousing & Student Services - The Fisher College campus, housing, student services and student resources programs define the College as much as the educational and instructional programs it offers and the people who embody its Mission. The students' experiences, and their memories of their years at Fisher College, are entwined with the campus and its offerings. Just as it safeguards the interest of its students, Fisher College is a steward of these vital and influential physical resources, programs and services, and this Program Service Accomplishment is imperative to the Mission of the College.
$12,169,249 spent$6,183,635 earned by the program54% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,506,081.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $57M to $69M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of FISHER COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Alexandra L Bartsch
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $950k → $29k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FISHER COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FISHER COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FISHER COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 86% · 2021 79% · 2022 73% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of FISHER COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of FISHER COLLEGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $74k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FISHER COLLEGE receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FISHER COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record — $4.2M federal, $969k state.
- Department of Education$4.2M
- MA$954k
- VT$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FISHER COLLEGE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISHER COLLEGE: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FISHER COLLEGE?
- FISHER COLLEGE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,183 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,756,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FISHER COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,042,183 in grants to FISHER COLLEGE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FISHER COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,756,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FISHER COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing