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FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH

FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,800 to it, the largest being PATRIOTS OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ($15,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$5k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Fishers of Men and Men Who Fish does

Mission

Educational program to teach the art of fishing

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Purchase supplies for fishing and informational education flyers

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($32k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2023 Revenue 28 ($9k) Expenses 673 ($26k) Net assets 39 ($11k)2024 Revenue 34 ($11k) Expenses 450 ($17k) Net assets 14 ($4k)2025 Revenue 16 ($5k) Expenses 99 ($4k) Net assets 19 ($5k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (16)Expenses (99)Net assets (19)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 2022 to 2023, from $28k to $11k (−61%).

$28k
$11k
$4k
$5k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$7k
’24
$1k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Flint Epps

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH’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.

Where its funders are

FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

OK

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−46% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH?
FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,800 to it, the largest being PATRIOTS OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ($15,800). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,800 in grants to FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH.
Who is the largest funder of FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH?
PATRIOTS OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FISHERS OF MEN AND MEN WHO FISH 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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