· Private foundation
Fish Family Foundation of Maine
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTAR | $12,000 |
| ISNAG MINISTRIES FOUNDATION | $5,200 |
| SHEPHERD GODPARENT HOME | $750 |
| VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI & SPORTS | $100 |
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 (FY17–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IMISNAG MINISTRIES FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +156%
- SMSouthern Maine Agency on Aging5× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +51%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC3× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BSBIRCH STREAM FARMSone grant, 2024 · $9k
- WBWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SJST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +2%
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.
Gateway Community Service seeks to encourage, support and build healthy connections with oneself and others in order to promote vibrancy and well-being, along with welcoming communities where all people feel accepted, valued and have a…
Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Saint Joseph Home Health Care seeks to serve the poor, elderly, and disabled in a way that pleases God and honors the dignity of each person.
Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington provides the "Next Step" program as well as other employment and social services. The Next Step Program is a self-sufficiency program which allows participants to set life improvement goals for…
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
To provide compassionate comfort care to members of our community with life-limiting illnesses, in a way that cherishes the dignity of each individual and meets their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
Water for South Sudan delivers direct, transformative and sustainable quality-of-life service to the people of South Sudan by efficiently providing access to clean, safe water and improving hygiene practices in areas of great need.
Linking together people, resources, and churches to reach the remote places of the earth that have little to no evangelical witness.
Adaptive Sports at Mount Snow is a volunteer-driven non-profit that provides adaptive sports, recreational opportunities and educational experiences to the Mount Snow community and its visitors throughout the year. Adaptive Sports at Mount…
Facilitate the receipt and disbursement of charitable contributions to gospel missions of the Apostolic Faith.
Provide affordable housing for elderly and disabled
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 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 ISNAG MINISTRIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds BIRCH STREAM FARMS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF FALLEN SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LIONS EYE RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS GODPARENT HOME ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds gobuildlove Inc ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fish Family Foundation of Maine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fish Family Foundation of Maine. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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