How much did BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 135 grants totaling $4,521,744 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in WA.

BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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· Community foundation

BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Bcf annually assesses local needs, administers an extensive grant program to provide funding to qualified nonprofits in order to meet those needs, educates the public about the needs to encourage greater giving in the community, makes scholarships to graduating students, and raises funds for current and future giving.

$4.5M

Granted FY2024

135

Grants

Communities

$1.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.6MArts & Culture$2.5MHuman Services$2.4MEnvironment$1.8MCivil Rights$1.7MRecreation & Sports$762kHousing & Shelter$685kAnimals$583kPhilanthropy$478kOther$3.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

baccalaureatevisual artsolympicsciencevesselmiddlerivers

2019

vmhsaffiliationmasonsciencevesselriversresearch

2020

investigativelow incomeequinescarterdifficult problemsriversend

2021

openpartcarterdifficult problemsstrongstrategicbattle point

2022

latinogenerationinclusive democracyleadersleadershipartistschurch

2023

northwest filmfilm forumamabilechoiroutdoorforestsystem

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $114k
$10k–50k103 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
$250k+1 grant · $1.0M

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMON POWER FUTURE$1,004,000
HELPLINE HOUSE$208,650
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$150,000
ISLANDWOOD$145,250
NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$125,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION$118,400
HOUSING RESOURCES BAINBRIDGE$81,750
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST$75,655
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$75,000
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$74,500
BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS$67,142
LAKESIDE SCHOOL$60,000
KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER$57,900
BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$54,500
BLOEDEL RESERVE$50,250

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 115 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

115 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115

Total granted

$16M

$821k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+45%

Still filing today

96%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $452k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BA
Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +112%
CP
COMMON POWER FUTURE
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +159%
HR
Housing Resources Bainbridge
8× · 2017–2024 · $668k · revenue +280%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $123k · revenue +264%
IC
Indipino Community of Bainbridge Island and Vicinity
one grant, 2020 · $83k · 59% of their budget
HC
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +193%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public

Community Improvement

Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Crime & Legal

Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture

Washington Bikes

The organization advocates for the rights of people who ride bikes and holds officials accountable working with them to shape policies.

Recreation & Sports

The Humane Society for Seattleking

Animal welfare organization

Animals

Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment

Birds Connect Seattle

Birds connect seattle advocates and organizes for cities where people and birds thrive.

Environment

Washington Wildlife & Recreation

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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Clean Energy Transition Institute

To accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest by producing unbiased research and analysis framing economic decarbonization strategies and convening stakeholders to debate the tradeoffs in building the clean energy…

Education

Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science

Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bainbridge Island Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Happy Hooves Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.5%1/202

the rest of the field

11%

4,080/38,766

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

191 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

185/191

Grantees still filing

156/191

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$3,587,438Arts & Culture$2,481,382Human Services$2,357,140Other$4,878,119Environment$1,771,406Civil Rights$1,685,500Recreation & Sports$761,985

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

One Call for AllWA134× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: One Call for All · Seattle Foundation · Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust · Kitsap Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · First Fed Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Deupree Family Foundation · Archarios Foundation · Veterane Family Foundation · Artsfund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ISLAND TREASURE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824494544 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ISLAND TREASURE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 86% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bainbridge Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bainbridge Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

191 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bainbridge Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

191 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bainbridge Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph