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Thefish 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sewall Child Development Center | $11,500 |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $6,500 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $2,500 |
| Oregon Food Bank | $2,500 |
| Young Americans Center for Financial Education | $2,500 |
| University of Iowa | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Colorado Pet Pantry | $1,350 |
| Metro Caring | $1,350 |
| Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue | $500 |
| Lighthouse Writers Workshop | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +30%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +254%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- MHMENTAL HEALTH CENTER COLORADOone grant, 2021 · $3k
- CVCOLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue ×21
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Baby Foundation Mckee Medical Center Foundation. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds REACH CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Center of Denver ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PET PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VILLAGE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Lazarus Gate ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOUNDATION MCKEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Thefish 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.
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
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.
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