· Private foundation
Two Fish Foundation
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 $10k12 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DON AND TAMMI HANCOCK | $225,000 |
| WORLD REACH INC | $59,368 |
| HAVEN MISSIONARY HOMES | $12,500 |
| NORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $12,374 |
| WEST MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AFTERWORD MUSIC MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| MISSION INDIA | $5,000 |
| CIRCUIT RIDERS | $3,800 |
| GRACE ADVENTURES | $3,070 |
| ARM MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| GRACE INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| PURE3PARTNERS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,763 |
| MULTITUDE MINISTRIES | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($4.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($1.2M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($1.2M)
9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 10 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WRWORLD REACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $820k · revenue +27%
- TWThe West Michigan friendship center6× · 2017–2022 · $227k · revenue +49% · 32% of their budget
- NCNORTHPOINTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS6× · 2018–2024 · $172k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $78k
- SMSAHYOGITA MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $67k
- TETHE ESTHER SCHOOL ZAMBIAone grant, 2020 · $45k
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.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Grace Global Ministries exists to assist local churches in sending global workers to fulfill the Great Commission.
Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
Train ministers, lay people and students who are involved at any level of ministry in small or large churches at local, national, and international levels. We train to go into the world and spread the gospel by helping people meet their…
To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 190 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.
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: Barnabas Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · The Aletheia Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Word Investments Inc · The Lloyd and Mabel Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Two Fish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Two Fish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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