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A volunteer-led food pantry and clothing ministry whose stated mission is that everyone in Clarke County can get food, clothing and support. It publishes a Berryville street address.
A volunteer-led food pantry and clothing ministry whose stated mission is that everyone in Clarke County can get food, clothing, and support.
The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File records FISH of Clarke County as a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN 54‑1554571 and a ruling year of 19931. The IRS classifies it under Human Services2 — a mission classification that describes what the organization actually does. FISH publishes a Berryville street address that falls in Clarke County3, and describes its own work directly: 'Our mission is to make sure everyone in Clarke County has access to the food, clothing, and support they need.'4
Returns for FISH are located in the IRS filing index for 12 fiscal years, 2012 through 2023, on Form 990 and Form 990‑EZ1. That is a sustained twelve-year reporting record from an organization that has been recognized by the IRS for over thirty years. Together the ruling year and the sustained reporting mark FISH as one of the county's longer-running charitable operations, and its shift between 990 and 990‑EZ across those years is the kind of scale change a Form 990 record captures well: budget size crosses filing-threshold boundaries.
Five claims that establish an active thirty-three-year-old food and clothing pantry serving Clarke County. What FISH distributes in a typical year, who its volunteers are, and how demand has moved through the community across the last three decades are questions the organization's own annual reports and Winchester Star or Clarke Courier coverage would answer — not yet in the corpus.
FISH of Clarke County is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1554571 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1993 recorded in the file.
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 1993. That is the year of the determination as carried in this extract, and the IRS ruling year does not establish its founding date: an organization can be recognized long after it began. FISH's own website dates its founding to 1968. Listing is not evidence that the organization is operating now, and this record establishes nothing about its conduct or its finances.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541554571
Relevant passageEIN 541554571 | FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC | subsection 03 | NTEE P20Z | ruling year 1993 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
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AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The IRS classifies FISH of Clarke County under Human Services.
The mission category the IRS assigns this organization. The category is the IRS's own classification code for the organization, not the organization's description of what it does.
A broad category is not a description of programs.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541554571
Relevant passageEIN 541554571 | FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC | subsection 03 | NTEE P20Z | ruling year 1993 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
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Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
FISH of Clarke County publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
The address is the organization's own statement; no deed, lease or county record was inspected. Placing it in Clarke County is this project's determination, from a US Census Bureau geocoder address match confirmed by an FCC Area API county lookup of the coordinates that geocoder returned. That second step checks the county for those coordinates; it is not an independent geocode of the address, so it cannot catch an address the Census geocoder placed at the wrong point. The street address itself is not published here, and where the organization's work reaches was not measured.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
FISH of Clarke County
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
FISH of Clarke County describes its work as: Our mission is to make sure everyone in Clarke County has access to the food, clothing, and support they need.
What the organization says it does, quoted from its own site on 2026-09-11.
Self-published and unverified. This is the organization's account of its own work; nothing here checks it against a program record, a filing or an independent report.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
FISH of Clarke County
Locator: Home page, the mission statement and the paragraph beginning "FISH is a volunteer-led"
Relevant passageOur mission is to make sure everyone in Clarke County has access to the food, clothing, and support they need.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Returns for FISH of Clarke County are located in the filing index for 12 fiscal years, 2012 through 2023, on Form 990 and Form 990-EZ.
Which fiscal years of return the index returns for this EIN, and on which forms. The segment lists each year with its form, fiscal period and return identifier, so the coverage can be checked record by record.
Returns are listed for 12 fiscal years, 2012 through 2023, on Form 990 and Form 990-EZ. A listed return is one that can be located in the filing index, not one that has been read: no document was retrieved, no amount from any return is reported in this note, and a directory entry is not an audit. Years missing from that count are years these sources did not return, which is not evidence that nothing was filed; no source used here reports a prior-year 990-N.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 541554571, fiscal years 2012-2026: 12 located, 2012 through 2023, on 990, 990-EZ. Per-year detail, with the return identifier for each, is in research/transparentclarke-inventory/filing-coverage.jsonl
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_filing_index_via_aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
FISH of Clarke County describes its work as: Our mission is to make sure everyone in Clarke County has access to the food, clothing, and support they need.
FISH of Clarke County describes its work as: Our mission is to make sure everyone in Clarke County has access to the food, clothing, and support they need.
What the organization says it does, quoted from its own site on 2026-09-11.
Self-published and unverified. This is the organization's account of its own work; nothing here checks it against a program record, a filing or an independent report.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
FISH of Clarke County
Locator: Home page, the mission statement and the paragraph beginning "FISH is a volunteer-led"
Relevant passageOur mission is to make sure everyone in Clarke County has access to the food, clothing, and support they need.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
FISH of Clarke County publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
FISH of Clarke County publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
The address is the organization's own statement; no deed, lease or county record was inspected. Placing it in Clarke County is this project's determination, from a US Census Bureau geocoder address match confirmed by an FCC Area API county lookup of the coordinates that geocoder returned. That second step checks the county for those coordinates; it is not an independent geocode of the address, so it cannot catch an address the Census geocoder placed at the wrong point. The street address itself is not published here, and where the organization's work reaches was not measured.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
FISH of Clarke County
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
FISH of Clarke County is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1554571 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1993 recorded in the file.
FISH of Clarke County is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1554571 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1993 recorded in the file.
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 1993. That is the year of the determination as carried in this extract, and the IRS ruling year does not establish its founding date: an organization can be recognized long after it began. FISH's own website dates its founding to 1968. Listing is not evidence that the organization is operating now, and this record establishes nothing about its conduct or its finances.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541554571
Relevant passageEIN 541554571 | FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC | subsection 03 | NTEE P20Z | ruling year 1993 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The IRS classifies FISH of Clarke County under Human Services.
The IRS classifies FISH of Clarke County under Human Services.
The mission category the IRS assigns this organization. The category is the IRS's own classification code for the organization, not the organization's description of what it does.
A broad category is not a description of programs.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541554571
Relevant passageEIN 541554571 | FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC | subsection 03 | NTEE P20Z | ruling year 1993 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Returns for FISH of Clarke County are located in the filing index for 12 fiscal years, 2012 through 2023, on Form 990 and Form 990-EZ.
Returns for FISH of Clarke County are located in the filing index for 12 fiscal years, 2012 through 2023, on Form 990 and Form 990-EZ.
Which fiscal years of return the index returns for this EIN, and on which forms. The segment lists each year with its form, fiscal period and return identifier, so the coverage can be checked record by record.
Returns are listed for 12 fiscal years, 2012 through 2023, on Form 990 and Form 990-EZ. A listed return is one that can be located in the filing index, not one that has been read: no document was retrieved, no amount from any return is reported in this note, and a directory entry is not an audit. Years missing from that count are years these sources did not return, which is not evidence that nothing was filed; no source used here reports a prior-year 990-N.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 541554571, fiscal years 2012-2026: 12 located, 2012 through 2023, on 990, 990-EZ. Per-year detail, with the return identifier for each, is in research/transparentclarke-inventory/filing-coverage.jsonl
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_filing_index_via_aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Also indexed as: FISH OF CLARKE COUNTY INC; Fish Of Clarke County Inc.
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