Vermont · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,168,328 to it, the largest being THE THREE T'S FOUNDATION ($547,950). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Vermont Community Foundationshared funders
- Jarecki Foundationportfolio match
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 27% · 2021 14% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $36k → $102k.
7 of 37 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 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 36% · 2019 94% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 68% · 2023 41% — 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
40% of THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Vermont Community Foundationshared fundersVT · backs 121 organizations that share your funders
- Jarecki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Maritime Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fishamerica Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana History Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cascade Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kentucky Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $259 on record.
- Other Purchased Services$259
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 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING 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 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC?
- THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC (Vermont) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,168,328 to it, the largest being THE THREE T'S FOUNDATION ($547,950). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,168,328 in grants to THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC?
- THE THREE T'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $547,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 37funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing