Bruce & Melissa Fischer Family Fdn
New York, NY · EIN 22-6966373. Reported 115 grants totalling $1,088,600 to 69 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Bruce & Melissa Fischer Family Fdn checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Bruce & Melissa Fischer Family Fdn funded make grants themselves, and it reported 12 grants totalling $487,500 to them. That is 61% of the $796,150 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hood Foundation | federated giving programme | New York | $450,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj | federated giving programme | New Jersey | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Boca Rio Foundation Inc | grantmaking organization | Florida | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $150,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hood Foundation | New York, NY | $450,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jafina | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thru Credit Card | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Services | Dallas, TX | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital | Boca Raton, FL | $41,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest | Whippany, NJ | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| City Harvest Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bronx Works Inc | The Bronx, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Masbia | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| S Asian Council for Soc Svc | Queens, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jewish Family Service | Albany, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of Central Nj | Whippany, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Fund | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children Special Hospital | New Brunswick, NJ | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gods Love We Deliver | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Jude Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of Rodeph Sholom School | New York, NY | $14,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| AIDS Walk New York | New York, NY | $12,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Children's Specialized Hospital | New Jersey, NJ | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Community Food Bank of New Jersey | Hillside, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| God's Love We Deliver | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Judes Hospital | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Make a Wish of Nj | Monroe Township, NJ | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Susan G Komen | Dallas, TX | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $8,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rodeph Shalom Synagogue | New York, NY | $7,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Make a Wish | New York, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Special Olympics of Nj | Lawrenceville, NJ | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Susan G Komen | New York, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chrons and Colitis Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fidf | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Yashar Lachayal Inc | East Brunswick, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holocaust Documentation Center | Dania Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy | Livingston, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Jewish Health | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Students Supporting Israel | Minneapolis, MN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering | New York, NY | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rights Behind Bars | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Special Olympics | Albany, NY | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Progeria Research Foundation | Peabody, MA | $4,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Child Cancer and Blood | New Jersey, NY | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Children Cancer and Blood | New York, NY | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lupus Foundation of Nj | Livingston, NJ | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Scleroderma Foundation | Boston, MA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boca Rio Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City Meals on Wheels | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lupus | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Scleroderma | Binghamton, NY | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Chrones and Colitis | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Circle of Topawingo | Speculator, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hillel International | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Baruch College Fund | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Breakthrough T1D | Hagerstown, MD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Park Conservatory | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fund for Israel Tomorrow | St Louis, MO | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jdrf One Walk | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waterbury Fire Fighters Association | Waterbury, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Point Pleasant Fire Department | Rochester, NY | $400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Hospice | New City, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Point Boro First Aid Squad | Point Pleasant, NJ | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Point Pleasant Fire Department | New Jersey, NJ | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Point Pleasant Local 106 | New Jersey, NJ | $100 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
36 of 69 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Robin Hood Foundation
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES - Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest
GENERAL CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES - St Jude Research Hospital
GENERAL CHAIRTABLE PURPOSES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 54 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 28 | $273,750 | $3,000 |
| 2021 | 29 | $195,100 | $2,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | $78,700 | $3,600 |
| 2023 | 25 | $235,700 | $3,600 |
| 2024 | 27 | $305,350 | $4,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
76% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bruce & Melissa Fischer Family Fdn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1410 Broadway, New York, NY, 10018. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 22-6966373 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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