Wyoming · Nonprofit
FISHING FOR THE FIGHT
FISHING FOR THE FIGHT (Wyoming) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,266 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($121,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $357k
- Net assets
- $326k
What Fishing for the Fight does
Mission
To support families fighting cancer, people with special needs, and chronic illness by coordinating fly-fishing tournaments on exceptional waters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A limited entry fly-fishing tournament with great fishing, guides, and a great cause. The proceeds generated from this event will go directly to families who are fighting cancer, people who have special needs, and children with chronic illnesses. The funds defray the costs of travel, food, and lodging, a cost that results from living in a rural location far from cancer treatment centers.during the fiscal year ended 1/31/25 the organization's fishing tournament and auction was able to provide $287,500 to kickin cancer in sublette county, $42,658 for special needs expenses for four individuals and one entity, and $17,827 in individual medical expense reimburements to four individuals.
$371,827 spentof which $347,985 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,827.
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 2024 to 2025, from $258k to $376k (+46%).
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.
69% of FISHING FOR THE FIGHT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $29k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 FISHING FOR THE FIGHT’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
FISHING FOR THE FIGHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 FISHING FOR THE FIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 87% · 2023 66% — 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
75% of FISHING FOR THE FIGHT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 45% 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 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
69% of FISHING FOR THE FIGHT'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 $111k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Wyoming funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $246k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FISHING FOR THE FIGHT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FISHING FOR THE FIGHT
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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FISHING FOR THE FIGHT: 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 FISHING FOR THE FIGHT?
- FISHING FOR THE FIGHT (Wyoming) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,266 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($121,550). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FISHING FOR THE FIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $357,266 in grants to FISHING FOR THE FIGHT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FISHING FOR THE FIGHT?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $121,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FISHING FOR THE FIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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