Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Fish Family 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2022
- 110
- Grants FY2022
- 106
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Fish Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Fish Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 90 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 110
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 14
- Total assets, FY2022
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 39% of the organizations The Fish Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 106 | $2.4M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 110 | $2.2M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $1.8M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 87 | $1.9M | 40% |
| FY2017 | 68 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Citizenship Inc | $989,177 | 5 | 39% |
| Rian Immigrant Center Inc | $622,532 | 5 | 5% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $595,535 | 4 | 1% |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc | $363,809 | 6 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $273,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Agencia Alpha Inc | $262,980 | 4 | n/a |
| Resilient Coders Inc | $196,525 | 4 | 9% |
| ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts Inc | $164,500 | 5 | 2% |
| About Fresh Inc | $160,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 169 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fish Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 160 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Health Resources in Action Inc
How this is measured
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About The Fish Family Foundation
- How much does The Fish Family Foundation give?
- The Fish Family Foundation reported 110 grants totaling $2,618,556 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Fish Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Human Services (15%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Fish Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Citizenship Inc ($989k), Rian Immigrant Center Inc ($623k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc ($596k).
- Does The Fish Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fish Family 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 The Fish Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is The Fish Family Foundation based?
- The Fish Family Foundation is based in MA.
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