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FISH Food Bank

FISH Food Bank (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,094 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($152,050). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$886k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$810k
Net assets
$1.4M
17/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What FISH Food Bank does

Mission

In cooperation with faith groups, businesses and community members, it is the mission of the FISH Food Bank to help alleviate hunger by distributing food regularly and on an emergency basis, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation and in a friendly, instant, sympathetic, helpful, nonjudgemental and confident manner.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Destributed food regularly and on an emergency basis regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation in a friendly, instant, sympatheitc, helpful, nonjudgemental and confidential manner; in cooperation with faith groups, businesses and community members

    $543,599 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $543,599.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($193k) Expenses 100 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($310k)2018 Revenue 113 ($219k) Expenses 100 ($163k) Net assets 118 ($366k)2019 Revenue 101 ($195k) Expenses 117 ($191k) Net assets 119 ($370k)2020 Revenue 278 ($535k) Expenses 198 ($323k) Net assets 188 ($583k)2021 Revenue 218 ($420k) Expenses 192 ($313k) Net assets 223 ($690k)2022 Revenue 214 ($412k) Expenses 174 ($283k) Net assets 264 ($819k)2023 Revenue 204 ($394k) Expenses 245 ($399k) Net assets 271 ($840k)2024 Revenue 351 ($677k) Expenses 273 ($444k) Net assets 346 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 460 ($886k) Expenses 334 ($544k) Net assets 456 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (460)Expenses (334)Net assets (456)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+33%).

$310k
$366k
$370k
$583k
$690k
$819k
$840k
$1.1M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of FISH Food Bank’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
$56k
’18
$4k
’19
$213k
’20
$108k
’21
$129k
’22
−$5k
’23
$233k
’24
$343k
’25
31
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed4444444
Joined··+0+0+2+1+0
No longer listed··00210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $6k → $105k.

9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FISH Food Bank’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FISH Food Bank has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FISH Food Bank.

19%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 56% · 2019 39% · 2020 23% · 2021 43% · 2022 51% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

54% of FISH Food Bank's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

56% of FISH Food Bank's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $356k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states.

WA
MT
NY
OR
IN
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $454k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FISH Food Bank runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve31.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding FISH Food Bank receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.

State$2k
Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$2k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISH Food Bank: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FISH Food Bank?
FISH Food Bank (Oregon) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $810,094 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($152,050). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FISH Food Bank have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $810,094 in grants to FISH Food Bank, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FISH Food Bank?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $152,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FISH Food Bank find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing