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FISH FOR LIFE INC

FISH FOR LIFE INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,178 to it, the largest being ROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ($55,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$213k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$181k
Net assets
$265k
4/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Fish for Life Inc does

Mission

Bringing Dignity, Inclusion and New Possibilities to Special Needs Children

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fish for Life has expanded to four locations and have served over 3500 special needs children

    $190,040 spentof which $207,683 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $190,040.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($96k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2021 Revenue 101 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 155 ($126k)2022 Revenue 197 ($188k) Expenses 169 ($105k) Net assets 257 ($208k)2023 Revenue 161 ($154k) Expenses 270 ($168k) Net assets 240 ($194k)2024 Revenue 258 ($246k) Expenses 318 ($198k) Net assets 299 ($242k)2025 Revenue 223 ($213k) Expenses 305 ($190k) Net assets 327 ($265k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (223)Expenses (305)Net assets (327)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 2021 to 2022, from $126k to $208k (+66%).

$81k
$126k
$208k
$194k
$242k
$265k
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of FISH FOR LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
’19
$34k
’21
$83k
’22
−$14k
’23
$48k
’24
$23k
’25
17
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.

20242025
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $42k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 LIFE INC’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 LIFE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48% 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 LIFE INC.

31%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 38% · 2023 48% — 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

50% of FISH FOR LIFE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

96% of FISH FOR LIFE INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
MO

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FISH FOR LIFE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve16.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding FISH FOR LIFE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8k on record.

Federal$8k
grants $8kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$8k

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.

Organizations like FISH FOR LIFE INC

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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

8
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISH FOR LIFE INC: 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 LIFE INC?
FISH FOR LIFE INC (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,178 to it, the largest being ROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ($55,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FISH FOR LIFE INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $181,178 in grants to FISH FOR LIFE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FISH FOR LIFE INC?
ROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $55,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FISH FOR LIFE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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