Minnesota · Nonprofit
MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION
MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,478 to it, the largest being BAME FOUNDATION ($80,478). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Mn-Fish Sportfishing Foundation does
Mission
The Mn-Fish Sportfishing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization designed to inspire minnesotans to restore, protect, and enhance sportfishing for the present and future generations to enjoy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mn-Fish Sportfishing Foundation 501(c)(3) was created to inspire mn anglers to protect, restore and enhance sportfishing for the present and future generations. By educating the general public, policy makers and regulators about the beneficial impacts angling has on minnesota's quality for life, mn-fish advocates for the desires of its members to improve fishing, fish management and quality access to our public recourses.mn-fish stays in constant contact with its 5,000 members through email and social media so we can share new and developing information important to the angling community and updates on mn-fish activites. Annually mn-fish holds an "anglers summit" that includes presentations by the minnesota department of natural resourses (dnr) who share fisheries management needs. This is an opportunity for mn-fish member to learn and ask detailed questions of state regulators about their concerns and perspectives about regulation changes that influence the future of angling in mn.after years of educating minnesota policy makers and state regulators about the years of eroding investments by the state into the public angling infrastructure, mn anglers successfully advocated for…
$21,457 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,457.
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 $83k to $158k (+91%).
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.
100% of MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $5k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION’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
MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION: 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 MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION?
- MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,478 to it, the largest being BAME FOUNDATION ($80,478). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $101,478 in grants to MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION?
- BAME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MN-FISH SPORTFISHING FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 4 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