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Goosefoot Community Fund

Goosefoot works together with the south whidbey community to create essential solutions.

$402k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$257k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.1MFood & Nutrition$423kEnvironment$242kHuman Services$202kPhilanthropy$147kEducation$146kHealth$25kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $250k+1 grant · $257k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAND ROOTS HOUSING$256,659
WHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$37,590
SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME$30,000
WHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS$30,000
WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES$30,000
WHIDBEY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK$12,692
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $224k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $10k → 7%SOUTH WHIDEBY AT HOME: $30k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $30k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $27k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $26k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $25k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $25k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $25k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $23k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS WHIDBEY ISLAND: $4k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 17 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
21

Total granted

$3.3M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+48%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WI
    WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +171%
  • SW
    SOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME
    8× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +130% · 42% of their budget
  • WW
    WHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +4% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • SS
    SENIOR SERVICE CENTER OF ISLAND COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • CF
    COUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +85%
  • WH
    WHITBEY HOMELESS COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
2
Island Arts Council

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts

To Impact lives through powerful shared experiences in the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
5
Oak Harbor Music Festival

The festival is dedicated to hosting a world-class 3-day event which contributes vibrance to the community.

Arts & Culture
6
South Whidbey Project

To improve the community of South Whidbey Island through public projects, education, engagement, and opportunity.

Community Improvement
7
Historic Whidbey

Protection, preservation, and promotion of historic sites on whidbey island through education and advocacy

Arts & Culture
8
Whatcom Land Trust

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.

Environment
9
North Whidbey Christian High School

North Whidbey Christian High School was closed the 2020-2021 school year. We hope to reopen in the 2022-2023 school year.

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10
Waitsburg High School Alumni Association
Education
11
Coastwatch Wildlife Society
Science & Tech
12
Island County Master Gardeners

The Island County Master Gardener Foundations main goal is to support the WSU Master Gardener program in Island County. Volunteers conduct outreach programs sharing research-based details on sustainable gardening and environmental…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sound Water Stewards of Island County; the most unlike its peers is South Whidbey Tilth Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISLAND ROOTS HOUSING: $2,293,108 · Housing & ShelterISLAND ROOTS HOUSING+1 more: $10,052 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $85,020 · OtherSOUTH WHIDBEY…ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $77,650 · OtherISLAND SENIOR…GOOD CHEER FOOD BANK: $37,500 · OtherGOOD CHEER FO…SENIOR SERVICE CENTER OF ISLAND COUNTY: $35,000 · OtherSENIOR SERVIC…COUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $51,000 · OtherWHIDBEY CAMAN…FRIENDS OF FRIENDS: $25,015 · OtherFRIENDS OF FR…+20 more: $104,177 · Other+20 moreWHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES: $210,334 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER: $36,300 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,005 · Food & NutritionSOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $210,334 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,755 · Human ServicesWHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS: $210,333 · Animals+1 more: $60 · AnimalsWHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $185,052 · PhilanthropyReadiness To Learn: $56,706 · EducationORGANIC FARM SCHOOL: $20,000 · Education
Housing & Shelter$2,303,160Other$430,362Food & Nutrition$251,639Human Services$224,089Animals$210,393Philanthropy$185,052Education$76,706

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISLAND ROOTS HOUSING: $2,293,108 over 2y, 53% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES: $210,334 over 8y, 19% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY AT HOME: $210,334 over 8y, 42% of budgetWHIDBEY WATERSHED STEWARDS: $210,333 over 8y, 42% of budgetWHIDBEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $185,052 over 6y, 11% of budgetReadiness To Learn: $56,706 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $51,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER: $36,300 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRIENDS: $25,015 over 3y, 12% of budgetORGANIC FARM SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSouth Whidbey Commons: $12,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSOUND WATER STEWARDS OF ISLAND COUNTY: $10,870 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION: $10,052 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $3,755 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $3,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZEN'S AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS FOR ANIMALS: $60 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHIDBEY CHILDRENS THEATER: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Whidbey Community Fou…The Virginia Wellingt…Island ThriftPuget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationTinyblue FoundationBerlin Family FundInatai FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Schuster FoundationThe Ron and Eva-Maria…The Norcliffe Foundat…
Whidbey Community FoundationWA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Goosefoot Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goosefoot Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Goosefoot Community Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Goosefoot Community Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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