· Private foundation
Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $191k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUNHOUSE COMMONS | $191,151 |
| WHC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND COMM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CTR | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ORCAS SENIOR CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $20,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CDCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $448k · revenue +90%
- TSTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST8× · 2018–2025 · $127k · revenue +24%
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +87%
- HUHARVARD UNIV OFFICE SPONSORED PROGRAMSone grant, 2021 · $40k
- WAWASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Our mission is to encourage facilitate support and engage in scientific investigation and research experimentation and to advance educational and training activities related to agriculture and natural resources throughout the state of…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orcas Island Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Whc Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE ↗
- Who funds LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
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 organization Daniel and Margaret Carper 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.
- Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages — 43% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.