Recreational Boating and Fishing
Alexandria, VA · EIN 54-1915490. Reported 83 grants totalling $1,553,128 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Recreational Boating and Fishing, the IRS classifies it under public safety & disaster relief rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE M40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 55% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $16,709. Half of what it reported fell between $9,288 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,140 and the largest $55,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
27 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $424,616 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Department of Fish and Wildlife | Sacramento, CA | $157,385 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Association of Fish & Wildlife Agen Ellington Agri Ctr | Aiken, SC | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | Tallahassee, FL | $93,977 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Texas Parks and Wildlife Department | Austin, TX | $89,332 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission | Harrisburg, PA | $79,334 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Michigan Department of Natural Resources | Lansing, MI | $79,208 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ohio Department of Natural Resources | Columbus, OH | $74,103 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nevada Dept of Wildlife | Reno, NV | $66,709 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency | Nashville, TN | $60,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resources | Annapolis, MD | $52,655 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Utah Division of Wildlife Resources | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Dept of Environmental Mgmt Divison of Fish and Wildlife | Providence, RI | $42,284 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| South Carolina Department of Natural Resources | Columbia, SC | $41,262 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | Madison, WI | $39,106 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arkansas Game and Fish Commission | Little Rock, AR | $37,920 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies | Boise, ID | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Resources Agency | Petersburgh, NY | $34,977 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iowa Department of Natural Resources | Des Moines, IA | $34,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Colorado Division of Wildlife | Denver, CO | $30,900 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission | Raleigh, NC | $27,980 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,529 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Fish and Wildlife | Indianapolis, IN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks | Pratt, KS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Dakota Department of Game Fish and Parks | Pierre, SD | $23,896 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arizona Game and Fish Department | Phoenix, AZ | $23,205 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York State Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation | Albany, NY | $21,467 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Illinois Conservation Foundation | Springfield, IL | $21,121 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife | Westborough, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries | Henrico, VA | $17,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Ike Foundation a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation | Pittsgrove, NJ | $17,138 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Division of Wildlife Resources | Social Circle, GA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oklahoma Dept of Wildlife Conservation | Oklahoma City, OK | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | Tallahassee, FL | $14,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vermont Dept of Fish and Wildlife | Montpelier, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection | Hartford, CT | $9,995 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| West Virginia Division of Natural Resources | South Charleston, WV | $7,595 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
21 of 36 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
DIGITAL R3 MARKETING CAMPAIGN GRANTS - SEE PART IV - Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (seafwa)
R3 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS- SEE PART IV - California Department of Fish and Wildlife
GEORGE H.W. BUSH VAMOS A PESCAR EDUCATION FUND GRANT- SEE PART IV - Maryland Department of Natural Resources
MOBILE FIRST CATCH CENTER GRANTS - SEE PART IV - North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
GEORGE H.W. BUSH VAMOS A PESCAR EDUCATION FUND GRANT - SEE PART IV
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $421,593 | $17,125 |
| 2022 | 27 | $548,611 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $366,807 | $16,484 |
| 2024 | 14 | $216,117 | $11,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
11% of its giving went to organizations in South Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $16,709 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Recreational Boating and Fishing's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 500 Montgomery Street 300, Alexandria, VA, 22314.
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