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Dutton Jones Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FUNHOUSE | $8,000 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL | $7,000 |
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER KINDERGARTEN TRANSITION | $6,000 |
| THE FUNHOUSE | $5,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| KUOW | $2,500 |
| KCTS9 | $2,500 |
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ORCAS SENIOR CENTER | $2,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| SEADOC | $1,000 |
| SCOTT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| ORCAS CENTER | $500 |
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, $35k) 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TOTHE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON6× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +41%
- OCORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +503%
- CDCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- CFCOFFELT FARM STEWARDSone grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue -67% · 28% of their budget
- SJSan Juan Cty Agricultural Guildone grant, 2020 · $33k
- IIOEFone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
Fostering philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on orcas island.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.
To educate, inspire, connect, and involve our community and visitors as stewards of island history.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
To provide infant, toddler, and preschool childcare services for the rural Orcas Island community. 75 children age 1 month to 12 years are enrolled in 4 classrooms:Infants, toddler, preschool,and school age.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
The wildlife center of the north coast's mission is wildlife rehabilitation, education and research about wildlife and their environments. this organization serves the north and central oregon coasts, the columbia river basin, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orcas Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Coffelt Farm Stewards. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 48 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 COFFELT FARM STEWARDS ↗
- Who funds THE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Woman in the Woods Presentations Society ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PCC FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HUSKY SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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 · Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Orcas Bay Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dutton Jones 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.
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.
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