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Fishback Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$33kReligion$26kEducation$23kHealth$10kHuman Services$6kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$2kPhilanthropy$800Other$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$152k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD VISION$1,500
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$1,500
40 DAYS FOR LIFE$1,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$1,000
VOICE OF MARTYRS$1,000
NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES$1,000
ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL$1,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$1,000
RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$1,000
THE PARISH PRESS$1,000
ST MARK'S CHURCH$1,000
MORNING STAR FOUNDATION$500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARTS BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $500 → 9%THE PARISH PRESS: $1k → 11%40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1k → 22%NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%MAYO CLINIC: $1k → 12%MORNING STAR FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%BLUE SKY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC: $500 → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 22%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%CSU-PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1k → 22%NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%CSU-PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 14%40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1k → 22%NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%CSU-PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 14%40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1k → 22%NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%CSU-PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 14%NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $900 → 17%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 14%NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $900 → 17%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $1k → 14%RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 14%RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $1k → 14%RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 14%RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%MATERNITY OF MARY CHURCH: $1k → 14%RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL: $700 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
WI
MA
OR
CO
KS
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 21 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
2

Total granted

$95k
$2k

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Compassion International Incorporated
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +16%
  • NC
    NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +28%
  • RE
    Resource Exchange International Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • MO
    MATERNITY OF MARY CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
3
VisionFund International

VisionFund International (VFI) was established for the purpose of supporting World Vision International (WVI) by coordinating and providing funding to World Vision - affiliated microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in developing…

Philanthropy
4
Gates Foundation Trust
Philanthropy
5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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6
Water for Good

Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.

International
7
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
8
Cross International Inc

(See Schedule O for description.)

Religion
9
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
10
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
11
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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12
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gates Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: $6,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOLBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC: $5,800 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,800 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $5,600 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INC: $5,600 · OtherVOICE OF THE MARTYRS INCMORNING STAR FOUNDATION: $3,500 · OtherMORNING STAR FOUNDATIONARTS BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · OtherARTS BRIDGE INTERNATIONALRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2,800 · OtherPARISH PRESS: $2,600 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,300 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORS: $2,200 · OtherST MARKS CHURCH: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $2,428 · OtherWORLD VISION INC: $9,004 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCCompassion International Incorporated: $9,000 · InternationalCompassion International …Resource Exchange International Inc: $5,700 · InternationalResource Exchange Interna…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNI…40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $5,000 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFENAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · ReligionNAZARENE …BLUESKY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC: $2,800 · ReligionBLUESKY G…GATES FOUNDATION: $800 · Philanthropy
Other$55,628International$23,704Education$17,000Religion$8,800Philanthropy$800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $9,004 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetResource Exchange International Inc: $5,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORNING STAR FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBLUESKY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC: $2,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGATES FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Resource Exchange International Inc ↗
  • Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds MORNING STAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLUESKY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GATES FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fishback Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fishback Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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