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Friends of Fish Foundation

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.

$590k
Granted FY2019
13
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 FY20172019.

Environment$428kAnimals$130kYouth Development$68kCrime & Legal$50kReligion$3k
02FY2019 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION$50,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$50,000
SONS OF LAKE ERIE$50,000
WILD OCEANS$50,000
CAST FOR KIDS FOUNDATION$50,000
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST$50,000
PA STEELHEAD ASSOCIATION$50,000
PENNSYLVANIA PARKS & FORESTS FOUNDATION$50,000
WEST CHESTER FISH GAME & WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION$30,000
DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%REEL EXPECTATIONS: $1k → 11%DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK: $30k → 6%PENNSYLVANIA PARKS & FORESTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%NORWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 10%PA STEELHEAD ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%FISHING FOR HEROES: $30k → 14%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $50k → 15%COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%CAST FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%WILD OCEANS: $50k → 4%TROUT UNLIMITED: $50k → 7%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%REEL EXPECTATIONS: $1k → 11%NORWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 10%SEA GRANT PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 15%CAST FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WILD OCEANS: $10k → 4%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%SEA GRANT PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 15%CAST FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%WILD OCEANS: $8k → 4%SEA GRANT PENNSYLVANIA: $8k → 15%SONS OF LAKE ERIE: $50k → 15%SONS OF LAKE ERIE: $10k → 15%SONS OF LAKE ERIE: $8k → 15%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

WA
WI
PA
VA
MD
DE
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Friends of Fish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Friends of Fish Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$339k · 7 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$339k
$340k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-26%

Still filing today

43%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2017–2019 · $68k
  • SO
    SONS OF LAKE ERIE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $68k
  • C(
    CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $68k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • PP
    PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -26%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +133%

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
California Trout Inc

Caltrout's mission is ensuring healthy water and resilient wild fish for a better california. we share a common vision of a california where healthy waters flow from headwaters to sea. where the diversity and resilience of our waters and…

Animals
2
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
3
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
4
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
5
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
6
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
7
Fishery Foundation of California

To improve fisheries resources in the state of california.

Animals
8
Clean Reefs
Environment
9
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
10
American Littoral Society

Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.

Environment
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
The Wilton Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cast (Catch a Special Thrill) for Kids Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cops and Kids Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $68,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSONS OF LAKE ERIE — $68,000 · OtherSONS OF LAKE ERIECAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $68,000 · OtherCAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONWILD OCEANS INC — $68,000 · OtherWILD OCEANS INCPA STEELHEAD ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherPA STEELHEAD ASSOCIATIONIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWEST CHESTER FISH GAME & WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · OtherWEST CHESTER FISH GAME & WILDLIFE ASSOCIATIONDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK — $30,000 · OtherDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK+2 more — $5,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOU…PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANIA PARKS…BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $50,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARPO…TROUT UNLIMITED INC — $50,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED …COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Education
Other$417,000Environment$112,000Animals$100,000Education$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetWILD OCEANS INC — $68,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetDELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Friends of Fish Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Friends of Fish Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Friends of Fish Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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.

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