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Pisces 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 108 grants below total $13,811,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,696,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,885,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $398k
- $50k–250k55 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+13 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tides Center | $2,000,000 |
| International Council on Clean Transportation | $500,000 |
| Conservation International Foundation | $500,000 |
| Civic Space Foundation | $500,000 |
| The Energy Foundation | $425,000 |
| Environmental Grantmakers Association | $350,000 |
| Partnership Project Inc | $275,000 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | $250,000 |
| EcoRise Youth Innovations | $250,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $250,000 |
| Indigenous Educational Network of Turtle Island | $250,000 |
| Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development | $250,000 |
| North American Association for Environmental Education | $250,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $200,000 |
| Deep South Center for Environmental Justice | $200,000 |
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.
88 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
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
- TCTides Center3× · 2021–2024 · $5.8M
- WFWater Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $4.6M
- CIConservation International Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M
Funded once
- MIMeridian Instituteone grant, 2021 · $300k
- CICommons Incone grant, 2021 · $250k
- MOMarch on Maryland Incone grant, 2022 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2024.
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 2021–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 243 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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