How much did TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Environment$24MPhilanthropy$2.1MEducation$1.5MHuman Services$682kPublic Benefit$450kInternational$423kHealth$310kFood & Nutrition$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$7.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

thousandspositive youthequipjobequine assistedabuseengagement

2019

studentheritageimpactspreparephysicalstrengthenexperience

2020

well-beingglobalspiritualoceanadvancingmanagefiscal

2021

alsclimate changestudentshealthactionempowerinnovation

2022

animalsorphansactivitiespotentialcancerchangeeducation

2023

creationoaklandabuseworkschildimpactsecurity

2024

foodinnovation awarenessawareness conservationconservation academicacademic scholarships

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k7 grants · $80k
$250k+2 grants · $8.4M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$144M

Total assets

Largest grants

Walking Softer$8,065,650
WALKING SOFTER$300,000
ST MARY'S SCHOOL$20,100
MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC$10,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
Great Old Broads for Wilderness$10,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$10,000
WIND RIVER TRIBAL BUFFALO INITIATIVE$10,000
Hole Food Rescue Corp$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$7,500
HOSPITAL OF ST JOHNS$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$30M · 58 repeat orgs$6.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

176

Total granted

$30M

$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+62%

Still filing today

72%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

WS
Walking Softer
4× · 2021–2024 · $22M · revenue +282% · 100% of their budget
PC
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $1.9M · revenue +57%
DI
DeployUS Inc
3× · 2020–2023 · $550k · revenue +6298%

Funded once

MS
MT SAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE
one grant, 2018 · $536k
TE
The Ecology Centergraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +139%
GB
GEORGE BUSH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $333k

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.

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues.

Environment

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Global Greengrants Fund

Mobilize resources for communities worldwide to protect our shared planet.

Environment

The Water Research Foundation

Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.

Environment

Climate Breakthrough Inc

To make an outsized impact in resolving the climate crisis by freeing leaders to translate their boldest ideas into transformative climate action that swiftly and justly closes the gap between the world today and a sustainable future.

Human Services

Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and regenerative practices and business models by helping climate-motivated professionals lead such transformation through their careers, company-building, and intrapreneurship.

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf has worked since 1961 to protect the future of nature. wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. the wwf network, of which wwf-us is part, is one of the world's leading…

Environment

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Walking Softer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 74% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%1/146

the rest of the field

472/5,171

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.

05the grantee network

142 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

138/142

Grantees still filing

110/142

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$24,053,014Other$7,877,034Philanthropy$2,093,500Education$1,544,200Human Services$682,000Public Benefit$450,000International$422,886

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.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA27× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Patagoniaorg · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David Rockefeller Fund Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Speyer Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Overbrook Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Samueli 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 organisation TEACH A MAN TO 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Walking Softer.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853237904 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Walking Softer, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Teach a Man to Fish Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Teach a Man to Fish Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

142 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Teach a Man to Fish Foundation?

More from the funding graph

TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

142 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Teach a Man to Fish Foundation?

More from the funding graph