Texas · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 43
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Ray C Fish Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $965k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $1.1M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $1.0M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.2M | 61% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $988k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Gate Ministries | $405,000 | 5 | 18% |
| United Against Human Trafficking | $400,000 | 4 | 6% |
| SpringSpirit Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Pathways for Little Feet | $225,000 | 5 | 17% |
| His Fathers Heart Ministries | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Arbor School | $175,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Texas Heart Institute | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Freedom Church Alliance | $100,000 | 1 | 27% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ray C Fish Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Ray C Fish Foundation
- How much does Ray C Fish Foundation give?
- Ray C Fish Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $965,335 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 43 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Ray C Fish Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (18%), Education (13%).
- Who are Ray C Fish Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Mercy Gate Ministries ($405k), United Against Human Trafficking ($400k), SpringSpirit Inc ($400k).
- Does Ray C Fish Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray C 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 Ray C Fish Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is Ray C Fish Foundation based?
- Ray C Fish Foundation is based in TX.
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