· Private foundation
The Vain and Harry Fish Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $27,000 |
| THE CITY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CAMP VICTORY NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FEEL BEAUTIFUL TODAY | $10,000 |
| TRANSATLANTIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| CAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| WEST END ARTS DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE WHEATON FUND | $5,000 |
| MARKET STREET MISSION | $5,000 |
| MOOSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| SOLA MEDIA | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS | $5,000 |
| TABLE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| HORIZONS | $4,000 |
| CHRISTIAN OVERCOMERS INC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of The Vain and Harry Fish Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe City School8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +267%
- CCCAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +36%
- SMSOLA MEDIA3× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TITEACHBEYOND INCone grant, 2017 · $8k
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +59%
- NNEMOURSone grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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Sumatanga Camp & Conference Center is a 1,400-acre retreat nestled against Chandler Mountain in St. Clair County, Alabama. We offer a sacred space and an environment rich with opportunities for encounters with God through nature and…
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Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
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The organization exists to glorify God by evangelizing, encouraging, and equipping individuals for active ministry through Bible Adventure, leadership training, and camping programs.
To operate camps for Christian ministry. To witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and provide extraordinary Christian community experience.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The City School ↗
- Who funds FEEL BEAUTIFUL TODAY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMERON COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JIM Club of America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLA MEDIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MOOSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds West End Arts District ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN OVERCOMERS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vain and Harry Fish Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vain and Harry Fish Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Our House Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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