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FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION

FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,487,961 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($937,851). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$8.0M
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
5/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($903k) Expenses 100 ($169k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 32 ($293k) Expenses 183 ($309k) Net assets 99 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 44 ($399k) Expenses 145 ($245k) Net assets 111 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 27 ($243k) Expenses 107 ($180k) Net assets 115 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 196 ($1.8M) Expenses 138 ($234k) Net assets 176 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 345 ($3.1M) Expenses 213 ($360k) Net assets 385 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 112 ($1.0M) Expenses 174 ($294k) Net assets 440 ($5.8M)2024 Revenue 43 ($388k) Expenses 201 ($340k) Net assets 443 ($5.8M)2025 Revenue 881 ($8.0M) Expenses 254 ($430k) Net assets 1016 ($13M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (881)Expenses (254)Net assets (1016)
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $0 → $268k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
4
2
1
5
6
4
1

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Martha Ellen Tye Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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 GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION.

63%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 37% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.

“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

80% of FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

93% of FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION'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 $106k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC 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 Iowa

Gateway Area Foundation64%The Fountain Charitable Foundation63%Emily Anne Weikert Charitable Foundation62%Mississippi Driftless Regional Foundation62%Franklin General Hospital Foundation62%Hoover Presidential Foundation62%Greenstate Foundation62%National Assistance Foundation61%

Nationally

Fisher Foundation for Family Health75%Fish Foundation Inc75%Doris & Donald Fisher Foundation75%Fishel Foundation74%Fishman Family Foundation Inc74%Doris & Donald Fisher Fund73%Maria Fisher Foundation72%Fisher Family Scholarship Fund71%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION?
FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,487,961 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($937,851). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,487,961 in grants to FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $937,851 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FISHER GOVERNOR FOUNDATION DBA MACC FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing