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Frederick G Fish 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.

$15k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$14,650
Largest grant, FY2025
$14,650
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$180k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Frederick G Fish Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$15k0%
FY20241$12k0%
FY20231$10k100%
FY20221$12k100%
FY20211$13k100%
FY202014$9k29%
FY201910$10k20%
FY201813$12k15%
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$61kAnimals$18kArts & Culture$12kEducation$6kScience & Tech$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frederick G Fish Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Zoological Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Historical Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEaster Seals Colorado: $1,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Ballet: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKent Denver Country Day School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Frederick G Fish Foundation

How much does Frederick G Fish Foundation give?
Frederick G Fish Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $14,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Frederick G Fish Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Animals (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Frederick G Fish Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($9k), Denver Zoological Foundation ($8k), Colorado Historical Foundation ($4k).
Does Frederick G Fish Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frederick G Fish Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frederick G Fish Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Frederick G Fish Foundation based?
Frederick G Fish Foundation is based in CO.

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 23 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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