· Private foundation
Orcas Bay 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 |
|---|---|
| LUDWIG VON MISES EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,400 |
| ORCAS AVIATION ASSOCIATION MERCY FLIGHT FUND | $1,000 |
| AIRHAWKS FLYING CLUB | $1,000 |
| ORCAS GARDEN CLUB | $1,000 |
| ORCAS SENIOR CENTER | $800 |
| SEADOC SOCIETY | $600 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE ORCAS DAYCARE ASSOCIATION | $600 |
| ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $500 |
| ORCAS CHORAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| THE FUNHOUSE COMMONS | $500 |
| ORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +78% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- AIAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH7× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +202%
- OMOrcas Montessori School6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +77%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC4× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- OIORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $2k
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -1%
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.
Support orcas island public school district.
To ensure that all orcas islanders have access to services and support for their well-being.
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.
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.
The mission of oich is to prepare children for kindergarten and lifeby providing dynamic play-based curriculum in an inclusive environment
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Building a zero waste community and mitigating climate crisis through service, education, and stewardship of our waste/resource streams.
Indralaya is both a sanctuary and a dynamic community engaged in an ongoing experiment in theosophical living and study. We honor and work with nature and aspire to live according to the principles of altruism, peaceful engagement with the…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orcas Island Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Orcas Montessori School ↗
- Who funds Orcas Family Health Center ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Health Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS OPEN ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Donald Family Foundation · Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Sos Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Anders Foundation · The Hoagland Family Foundation · Dutton Jones Foundation · Kemper Freeman Foundation · Glasser Family Fund · The GreerSolien Fund · Www 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 Orcas Bay 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.