· Public charity
Goosefoot Community Fund
Goosefoot works together with the south whidbey community to create essential solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $2,167,945 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,474,572 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,306,627 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $131k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND ROOTS HOUSING | $2,036,449 |
| WHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $31,496 |
| WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES | $30,000 |
| SOUTH WHIDEBY AT HOME | $30,000 |
| WHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS | $30,000 |
| BLACKSEED FARM | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +109% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- SWSOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME7× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +130% · 42% of their budget
- WIWHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES7× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +171%
- WWWHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS7× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +4% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- SSSENIOR SERVICE CENTER OF ISLAND COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $35k
- CFCOUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +71%
- WHWHITBEY HOMELESS COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
Our mission is to protect wild spaces and promote healthy ecosystems in and beyond Island County.We envision an Island County whose protected environment supports myriad species in harmony, and whose engaged community recognizes the…
To Impact lives through powerful shared experiences in the arts.
The mission of whidbey island arts council (wiac) is to foster local artists and arts organizations through grants, fiscal management, and sponsorship to provide outreach and awareness of the arts and culture on whidbey island. wiac's…
To improve the community of South Whidbey Island through public projects, education, engagement, and opportunity.
The festival is dedicated to hosting a world-class 3-day event which contributes vibrance to the community.
North Whidbey Christian High School was closed the 2020-2021 school year. We hope to reopen in the 2022-2023 school year.
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Protection, preservation, and promotion of historic sites on whidbey island through education and advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sound Water Stewards of Island County and the most unlike its peers is Civility First. 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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 68% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 ISLAND ROOTS HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Readiness To Learn ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds South Whidbey Commons ↗
- Who funds SOUND WATER STEWARDS OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY TILTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY ISLAND WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CIVILITY FIRST ↗
- Who funds MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN'S AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE ↗
- Who funds CASCADIANOW ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY CHILDRENS THEATER ↗
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: Whidbey Community Foundation · The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation · Island Thrift · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Tinyblue Foundation · Berlin Family Fund · Inatai Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Schuster Foundation · The Ron and Eva-Maria Sher Foundation · The Norcliffe 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 Goosefoot Community Fund 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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