Colorado · Nonprofit
Fish For Change
Fish For Change (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,734 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($56,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Fish For Change does
Mission
To provide conservation and education programs focusing on sustaining healthy fresh and saltwater fisheries. The company creates initiatives and engages in providing educational and therapeutic experiences through fly fishing and further advocates for conservation utilizing media
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Week long educational programs provided abroad and in the United Sttes for high school and college students. Approximately 45 students were served in 2023. Content focused on conservation, service work, cultural exchange, and fly fishing.
$147,226 spentof which $20,650 as grants$100,071 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $147,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $103k to $209k (+103%).
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.
57% of Fish For Change’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Rebecca Clarke
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $51k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 For Change’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 For Change has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 For Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 39% — 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
0% of Fish For Change's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
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 FY2022, 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
Fish For Change draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Fish For Change runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Fish For Change
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fish For Change: 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 For Change?
- Fish For Change (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,734 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($56,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fish For Change have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $225,734 in grants to Fish For Change, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fish For Change?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $56,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fish For Change find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing