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Island Thrift

ISLAND THRIFT is a nonprofit dedicated to helping whidbey islanders thrive.

$211k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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.

Youth Development$530kArts & Culture$359kHealth$288kHuman Services$258kFood & Nutrition$154kCrime & Legal$100kEducation$84kHousing & Shelter$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $188,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $211,227 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,827 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $156k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MOTHER MENTORS$5,000
READINESS TO LEARN$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 7%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $7k → 7%SENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $7k → 7%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $20k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS: $10k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS: $10k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS: $8k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS: $8k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS: $8k → 7%STEPS: $19k → 7%STEPS: $18k → 7%TODDLER LEARNING CENTER: $12k → 7%TODDLER LEARNING CENTER: $12k → 7%TODDLER LEARNING CENTER: $12k → 7%TODDLER LEANRING CENTER: $12k → 7%STEPS: $12k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $8k → 7%Toddler Learning Center: $8k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $6k → 7%HAVEN (Opportunity Council): $6k → 7%OPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 7%Ryan's House: $10k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 33 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
24

Total granted

$1.9M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+7%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +93%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +13%
  • OH
    OAK HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • DP
    Deception Pass Park Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +169%
  • IA
    ISLAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • MT
    Mighty to Save Ministries
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -38%
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
South Whidbey Tilth Association

Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture

Food & Nutrition
3
Whidbey Environmental Action Network

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…

Environment
4
South Whidbey Project

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

Community Improvement
5
Historic Whidbey

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

Arts & Culture
6
South Whidbey Commons

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts

To Impact lives through powerful shared experiences in the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Whidbey Community Foundation

Strengthening the communities of whidbey island for both present and future generations.

Philanthropy
9
Friends of Orcas Senior Center

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,…

Human Services
10
Anderson Island Historical Society

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.

—
11
Bainbridge Island Historical Society

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

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12
Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council

Connecting community through arts, humanities, and cultural programs

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Health; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
29/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTY: $162,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTYCITY OF OAK HARBOR: $128,514 · OtherCITY OF OAK HARBORCITIZEN'S AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE: $99,900 · OtherCITIZEN'S AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSEWhidbey Island Women's Clinic: $89,200 · OtherWhidbey Island Women's ClinicNorth Whidbey Help House: $51,000 · OtherNorth Whidbey Help HouseOAK HARBOR PIG FEST: $42,000 · OtherCOUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL: $37,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ISLAND COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherWASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS: $30,000 · Other+28 more: $221,135 · Other+28 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $350,833 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…OAK HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL: $156,000 · Arts & CultureOAK HARBOR MUSIC FE…PBY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $123,000 · Arts & CulturePBY MEMORIAL FOUNDA…SARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA CHAMBER OR…WHIDBEY PLAYHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $22,690 · Arts & CultureWHIDBEY PLAYHOUSE A…+3 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPS: $105,000 · Human ServicesSTEPSSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $44,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVI…MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $42,500 · Human ServicesMOTHER MENTO…OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $25,033 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY …RYAN'S HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesWHIDBEY ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthMighty to Save Ministries: $10,000 · HealthOAK HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $37,000 · PhilanthropySoroptimist International of Oak Harbor Foundation: $32,500 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $10,065 · PhilanthropySPIN CAFE: $45,000 · Food & NutritionAGRARIAN LAND TRUST: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$891,749Youth Development$350,833Arts & Culture$342,690Human Services$226,533Health$100,000Philanthropy$79,565Food & Nutrition$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $350,833 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTY: $162,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetOAK HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL: $156,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetPBY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $123,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetSTEPS: $105,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCITIZEN'S AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE: $99,900 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetWhidbey Island Women's Clinic: $89,200 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetNorth Whidbey Help House: $51,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSPIN CAFE: $45,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $44,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $42,500 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetCOUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL: $37,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetOAK HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetSoroptimist International of Oak Harbor Foundation: $32,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ISLAND COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $30,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION: $25,835 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $25,033 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHIDBEY PLAYHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $22,690 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetReadiness To Learn: $13,750 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH: $11,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID: $10,065 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMighty to Save Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRYAN'S HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY PARKS AND AQUATICS FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOAK HARBOR MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF EBEYS LANDING NATIONAL HISTORICAL RESERVE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSkagit Valley College Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIsland County Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAGRARIAN LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWHIDBEY CHILDRENS THEATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 WASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Albertsons Compan…North Sound Accountab…Goosefoot Community F…Medina FoundationWindermere FoundationLucky Seven FoundationArtsfundUnited Way of Island …NW Childrens Foundati…
Whidbey Community FoundationWA51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Island Thrift funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Island Thrift. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    12report 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 Island Thrift?

    Find your warmest path to Island Thrift 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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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