· Public charity
Island Thrift
ISLAND THRIFT is a nonprofit dedicated to helping whidbey islanders thrive.
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 14 grants below total $188,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $211,227 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,827 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
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PBY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| OAK HARBOR MUSIC FESIVAL | $20,500 |
| ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OAK HARBOR | $20,000 |
| STEPS | $19,000 |
| OAK HARBOR SENIOR CENTER | $14,400 |
| WHIDBEY WOMEN'S CLINIC | $12,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST | $10,000 |
| WHIDBEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPIN CAFE | $9,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $7,500 |
| NW HELP HOUSE | $6,000 |
| READINESS TO LEARN | $5,000 |
| MOTHER MENTORS | $5,000 |
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, $227k) 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 +58% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 19 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 FY2024, 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +93%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +13%
- OHOAK HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL7× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- DPDeception Pass Park Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +169%
- IAISLAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $11k
- MTMighty to Save Ministriesone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -38%
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.
Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture
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 improve the community of South Whidbey Island through public projects, education, engagement, and opportunity.
Protection, preservation, and promotion of historic sites on whidbey island through education and advocacy
The Mission of the South Whidbey Commons is to provide an intentional third place for the community to gather. The space, programs, volunteer, and job training opportunities are designed to build community and create connections. It's a…
To Impact lives through powerful shared experiences in the arts.
Strengthening the communities of whidbey island for both present and future generations.
Orcas Senior Center (OSC) engages the community to provide services, advocacy, and support so that people can live and age well on Orcas Island. Orcas Senior Center supports this community through a variety of opportunities, programs,…
Preserve and educate the public about the history of Anderson Island, of the Johnson Farm and historic artifacts displayed at the site. Provide spaces for the public to meet, hold events and garden.
Preserve and share the stories of Bainbridge Island to promote a greater understanding of our community and the world in which we live; And, to operate a Historic Museum and Library
Connecting community through arts, humanities, and cultural programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Health and the most unlike its peers is Deception Pass Park 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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 11% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 57 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OAK HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PBY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPS ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN'S AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Whidbey Island Women's Clinic ↗
- Who funds North Whidbey Help House ↗
- Who funds SPIN CAFE ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND ↗
- Who funds COUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OAK HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Soroptimist International of Oak Harbor Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ISLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY PLAYHOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Oak Harbor Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds Readiness To Learn ↗
- Who funds Deception Pass Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds Mighty to Save Ministries ↗
- Who funds RYAN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY PARKS AND AQUATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAK HARBOR MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEERKERK RHODODENDRON GARDENS ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Goosefoot Community Fund · Medina Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Artsfund · United Way of Island County · NW Childrens 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 Island Thrift 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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