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Ray C 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.

$965k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Religion$998kHuman Services$968kEducation$695kYouth Development$490kHealth$340kArts & Culture$325kRecreation & Sports$190kEnvironment$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $560k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$160,000
SPRINGSPIRIT$100,000
HIS FATHERS HEART MINISTRIES$100,000
UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING$100,000
TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE$50,000
MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$50,000
MERCY GATE MINISTRIES$45,000
Z78 MINISTRIES$30,000
DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER$25,000
BRIDGES TO LIFE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ARCHWAY ACADEMY$25,000
PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHRIST ROSE FOUNDATION$25,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $955k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $100k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $100k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $100k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $100k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $100k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $50k → 16%WORK TEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $50k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $25k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $25k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $25k → 16%PATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 16%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $25k → 16%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $20k → 16%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $20k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS: $20k → 16%PRODIGAL ROAD MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%HARRIS COUNTY DRUG COURT FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%HOMEMADE HOPE: $10k → 16%TODAY'S HARBOR FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%HOMEMADE HOPE: $5k → 16%CLOTHED BY FAITH: $5k → 16%NAVIDAD VALLEY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 16%ELIJAH RISING: $3k → 16%PRODIGAL ROAD MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%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.

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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 48 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
47

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MG
    MERCY GATE MINISTRIES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $405k · revenue +232%
  • SI
    SpringSpirit Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $400k · revenue +64%
  • Pathways for Little Feet
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • DA
    DUCHESNE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • FC
    Freedom Church Alliance
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +7% · 27% of their budget
  • CU
    CHAPELWOOD UMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k

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
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
4
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
7
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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8
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
9
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
10
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
11
West Street Recovery

West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%1%<5yr17%10%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr8%32%35–55yr8%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%17%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr8%13%35–55yr8%13%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
19%
3,802/20,361

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 112 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
42/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $513,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHIS FATHERS HEART MINISTRIES — $200,000 · OtherHIS FATHERS HEART MINISTRIESDUCHESNE ACADEMY — $150,000 · OtherDUCHESNE ACADEMYHERMAN PARK CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherCHAPELWOOD UMC FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherTexas Heart Institute — $150,000 · OtherTexas Heart Institute+62 more — $1,154,055 · Other+62 moreUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $400,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AGAINST HUMAN…Pathways for Little Feet — $225,000 · Human ServicesPathways for Little …Work Texas Training Center — $50,000 · Human ServicesBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $45,000 · Human Services+12 more — $185,000 · Human Services+12 moreMERCY GATE MINISTRIES — $405,000 · ReligionMERCY GATE M…Freedom Church Alliance — $100,000 · ReligionFreedom Chur…Hope and Healing Center & Institute — $50,000 · ReligionHope and Hea…+2 more — $15,000 · ReligionTHE ARBOR SCHOOL — $175,000 · EducationTHE ARBOR…William Marsh Rice University — $120,000 · EducationWilliam M…ARCHWAY ACADEMY — $50,000 · EducationARCHWAY A…Small Steps Nurturing Center — $35,000 · EducationSmall Ste…The Gateway Academy Inc — $35,000 · EducationThe Gatew…Joy Development School — $25,000 · EducationJoy Devel…+2 more — $15,000 · EducationSpringSpirit Inc — $400,000 · Recreation & SportsSpringSpi…Z78 MINISTRIES DBA DEER CREEK CAMP — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsZ78 MINIS…INGRAM LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $155,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $65,000 · EnvironmentSCENIC HOUSTON INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE COMING KING FOUNDATION — $82,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science — $64,300 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum — $45,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON MARITIME MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATRE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON FIRE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,367,055Human Services$955,000Religion$570,000Education$455,000Recreation & Sports$445,000Environment$290,000Arts & Culture$263,800

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMERCY GATE MINISTRIES — $405,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $400,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPathways for Little Feet — $225,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL — $175,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $155,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Heart Institute — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Church Alliance — $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE COMING KING FOUNDATION — $82,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $64,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMalachi Destiny & Purpose — $55,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWork Texas Training Center — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetARCHWAY ACADEMY — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSCENIC HOUSTON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetADULT READING CENTER INC — $45,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Heritage Society — $35,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThe Gateway Academy Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSTON MARITIME MUSEUM — $30,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAssistance League of Houston — $30,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTeen & Family Services — $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCore House Ministries Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoy Development School — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNO STRINGS ATTACHED DBA UNTETHERED MINISTRIES — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKERR COUNTY CHRISTIAN ACTION COUNCIL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOpen Door Mission — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHouston Area Parkinson Society — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT HOREB HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetALLEY THEATRE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDINA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPRODIGAL ROAD MINISTRIES INC — $17,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHomemade Hope for Homeless Children — $15,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetINGRAM LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHOUSTON FIRE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE — $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationSterling-Turner Found…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Houston Endowment IncThe Elkins FoundationBaxter Trust Co Priva…The Medallion Foundat…Vivian L Smith Founda…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX72.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation

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 Ray C 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 112 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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