· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA PARKS & FORESTS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAST FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $50,000 |
| PA STEELHEAD ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WILD OCEANS | $50,000 |
| SONS OF LAKE ERIE | $50,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $50,000 |
| DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK | $30,000 |
| WEST CHESTER FISH GAME & WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Friends of Fish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 40%.
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 +53% since the first grant, against -26% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $68k
- SOSONS OF LAKE ERIE3× · 2017–2019 · $68k
- WOWILD OCEANS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $68k · revenue -60%
Funded once
- PPPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +44%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +133%
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -26%
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.
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…
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…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
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…
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…
To improve fisheries resources in the state of california.
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…
Promote the study and conservation of marine life and its habitat, defend the coast from harm, and empower others to do the same.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 WILD OCEANS INC ↗
- Who funds CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RIVERKEEPER NETWORK ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Friends of Fish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of Fish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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