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FISH FRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT INC

EIN 06-0878637 TORRINGTON, CT

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Revenue 2024
$1,154,183
Expenses 2024
$1,119,767

Program services were 90.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L410
Classification
1000
Street
332 S MAIN ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FISH/FRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE THE MOST BASIC OF HUMAN NEEDS - FOOD, SHELTER, AND HOPE TO FAMILIES, VETERANS AND INDIVIDUALS.

  • FISH NWCT HOMELESS SHELTER FOR FAMILIES, VETERANS AND INDIVIDUALS (35 BEDS, 10 OF WHICH ARE DESIGNATED FOR VETS) WHICH LAST YEAR HAD 11,710 BED NIGHTS USED. THIS REPRESENTED 84 UNDUPLICATED INDIVIDUALS 59 ADULTS, 11 CHILDREN AND 14 VETERANS. ALSO PROVIDED: CASE MANAGEMENT, COUNSELING, GED AND COMPUTER CLASSES, JOB COACHING, AA MEETINGS, MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, AND LIFE SKILLS WORKSHOPS IN A SAFE AND SECURE, FAMILY FRIENDLY, COMMUNAL SETTING.

    Expenses $471,305

  • FISH NWCT FOOD PANTRY FISH DISTRIBUTED ENOUGH FOOD TO PROVIDE OVER 60,000 MEALS TO APPROXIMATELY 1,000 AREA FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN NEED THIS LAST YEAR.

    Expenses $403,686

  • VETERANS PROGRAM AT THE FISH NWCT HOMELESS SHELTER VETS FOR LIFE. FISH NWCT PROVIDED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING SERVICES TO HOMELESS VETERANS THROUGH A GRANT PROVIDED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Expenses $136,333

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Deirdre Houlihan Dicara

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $113,589
    From this org
    $113,589
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ken Yancy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Berns

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maura Malo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah Pokrinchak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Conti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Donna Puzacke

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathy Briggs

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steven Caruso

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christopher Ryan

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,154,183
    Expenses
    $1,119,767
    Contributions
    $1,141,870
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $967,564
    Expenses
    $1,007,516
    Contributions
    $960,780
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,003,395
    Expenses
    $941,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $926,002

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $727,482
    Expenses
    $760,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $775,717

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $984,694
    Expenses
    $760,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $808,489

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $799,319
    Expenses
    $812,729
    Assets (EOY)
    $501,235

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $907,768
    Expenses
    $927,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $532,786

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,086,068
    Expenses
    $1,087,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $558,390

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $901,031
    Expenses
    $904,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $551,752

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $774,003
    Expenses
    $770,924
    Assets (EOY)
    $550,233

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $685,208
    Expenses
    $702,078
    Assets (EOY)
    $590,335

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $673,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $625,193

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.