Washington · Private foundation
Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $531k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $191,151
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $531k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $427k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $290k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $259k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $411k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $240k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $165k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $216k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Discovery Foundation | $448,006 | 8 | 12% |
| The San Juan Preservation Trust | $127,000 | 8 | 1% |
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Orcas Community Resource Center | $110,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Orcas Animal Protection Society | $87,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Orcas Island Food Bank | $81,000 | 9 | 3% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $65,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre | $55,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Orcas Island Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Orcas Bay Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · Dutton Jones Foundation · Glasser Family Fund · Sos Foundation · Www Foundation · Orcasong Institute · Brown Dog Foundation · The Anders Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation with peer funders
About Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation
- How much does Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation give?
- Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $531,151 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (16%), Animals (12%), Religion (7%).
- Who are Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Discovery Foundation ($448k), The San Juan Preservation Trust ($127k), African Wildlife Foundation Inc ($115k).
- Does Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orcas Island Community Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Orcas Bay Foundation.
- Where is Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation based?
- Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation is based in WA.
Play a game based on Daniel and Margaret Carper’s filings →