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Fish Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$395k
Granted FY2019
22
Grants FY2019
15
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Education$302kHealth$211kInternational$175kHuman Services$139kReligion$137kAnimals$115kEnvironment$70kEmployment$69kOther$0
02FY2019 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $326k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM$60,628
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD VILLAGE$25,000
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$25,000
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD VILLAGE$25,000
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$20,000
NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
CHRISTIAN FORMATION & DIRECTION MIN$20,000
PACIFIC & ASIAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL$20,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS-CENTRAL JERSEY$16,345
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$16,000
CHILDSPLAY INC$15,000
AT THE WELL CONFERENCES INC$15,000
ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM$15,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$15,000
ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAKE A WISH INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 11%HANDI-DOGS INC: $15k → 15%OPERATION WARM: $7k → 6%RECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC: $15k → 10%SOPHIA INSTITUTE: $18k → 12%OPERATION WARM: $7k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $7k → 6%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $20k → 9%DRESS FOR SUCCESS-MERCER COUNTY: $16k → 11%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $20k → 9%DRESS FOR SUCCESS-MERCER COUNTY: $16k → 11%AT THE WELL CONFERENCES INC: $15k → 17%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $5k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS-CENTRAL JERSEY: $16k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
AZ
TN
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DC
HI
GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$764k · 18 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
25

Total granted

$764k
$470k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+44%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GK
    GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +102%
  • DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL PASTORAL
    one grant, 2018 · $45k
  • FC
    FLAGLER COLLEGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +51%
  • PP
    PINNACLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of America

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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9
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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10
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation International and the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAt-Risk Youth MentoringChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsCancer Support OrganizationsEducation Equity LeadershipHospice Care ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceNative Hawaiian Community D…Land Conservation Organizat…Ymca Community CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Developmental Disabilities …Public Library SupportYouth Sports Booster Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM — $105,628 · OtherADOPT-A-CLASSROOMGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC — $100,000 · OtherGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCPacific & Asian Affairs Council — $60,000 · OtherPacific & Asian Affairs CouncilASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL PASTORAL — $45,000 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL PASTORALBEACON COLLEGE INC — $40,000 · OtherPRINCETON BLAIRSTON CENTER — $30,000 · OtherBITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION — $30,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 · Other+22 more — $344,800 · Other+22 moreDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY — $49,035 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCE…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…Operation Warm Inc — $21,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm …THE SOPHIA INSTITUTE — $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA INST…RECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesRECLAIM CHILDHO…At The Well Conferences Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesAt The Well Con…HANDI-DOGS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHANDI-DOGS INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOU…ONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $40,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGE…THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE — $30,000 · HealthTHE CENTER F…FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $22,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCH…AUTISM SPEAKS INC — $20,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAK…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $16,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthWHEEL TO WAL…ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC — $12,000 · HealthST LUKES FRE…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $45,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POS…FLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $36,000 · EducationFLAGLER COL…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UN…CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $20,000 · EducationCHESTER COU…HOMEFRONT INC — $20,000 · EducationHOMEFRONT I…New Jersey Audubon Society — $40,000 · EnvironmentNA KAMA KAI — $30,000 · EnvironmentGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $60,000 · AnimalsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$785,428Human Services$198,035Health$155,000Education$146,000Environment$70,000Animals$60,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPacific & Asian Affairs Council — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY — $49,035 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HONOLULU — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEACON COLLEGE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNA KAMA KAI — $30,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FORMATION AND DIRECTION MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE SOPHIA INSTITUTE — $18,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAt The Well Conferences Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHANDI-DOGS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetChicago Run — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSPLAY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKEEP YOUTH DOING SOMETHING INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Shepherds Table Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL GUILD OF TRENTON NJ — $7,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVENTURE FOUNDATION LTD — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMOORESTOWN VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION — $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fish Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj — 100% of income from government
  • Reclaim Childhood Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
  • Beacon College Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines