How much does Orcas Island Community Foundation give?

Orcas Island Community Foundation reported 61 itemized grants totaling $4,497,064, out of $6,335,823 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Orcas Island Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are Orcas Island Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orcas Island Food Bank ($4.4M), Opal Community Land Trust ($3.9M), Orcas Community Resource Center ($2.8M).

Does Orcas Island Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Orcas Island Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orcas Bay Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Donald Family Foundation.

Where is Orcas Island Community Foundation based?

Orcas Island Community Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Community foundation

Orcas Island Community Foundation

Fostering philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on orcas island.

$6.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 61
Itemized grants FY2025: 52
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $4.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $18,675
Largest grant, FY2025: $741,297
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 53; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $31M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Orcas Island Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	56	$4.5M	18%
FY2024	52	$7.4M	21%
FY2023	42	$3.9M	10%
FY2022	53	$2.5M	26%
FY2021	36	$2.4M	14%
FY2020	33	$3.9M	36%
FY2019	42	$2.7M	33%
FY2018	40	$1.7M	30%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$4.8MEducation$4.1MFood & Nutrition$4.0MHousing & Shelter$3.8MArts & Culture$3.7MEnvironment$2.3MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$533kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Orcas Island Food Bank	$4,444,550	8	20%
Opal Community Land Trust	$3,853,786	9	41%
Orcas Community Resource Center	$2,784,496	9	49%
Children's Discovery Foundation	$1,624,501	9	76%
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival	$1,576,868	9	46%
Orcas Island School District 137	$1,536,043	9	n/a
Orcas Center	$1,382,866	9	34%
Friends of Orcas Senior Center	$1,172,200	3	70%
The San Juan Preservation Trust	$1,134,505	6	7%
The Orcas Island Education Foundati On	$1,109,498	9	92%

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All grantees of Orcas Island Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Orcas Island Food Bank	$4,444,550	8	20%
Opal Community Land Trust	$3,853,786	9	41%
Orcas Community Resource Center	$2,784,496	9	49%
Children's Discovery Foundation	$1,624,501	9	76%
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival	$1,576,868	9	46%
Orcas Island School District 137	$1,536,043	9	n/a
Orcas Center	$1,382,866	9	34%
Friends of Orcas Senior Center	$1,172,200	3	70%
The San Juan Preservation Trust	$1,134,505	6	7%
The Orcas Island Education Foundati On	$1,109,498	9	92%
Orcas Daycare Association	$957,340	9	12%
Orcas Island Childrens House	$898,830	9	29%
Senior Services Council of San Juan	$693,093	5	69%
Orcas Montessori School	$558,516	9	28%
Orcas Island Library	$446,875	8	n/a
Safe San Juans	$371,063	9	17%
Orcas Animal Protection Society	$351,637	8	42%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)	$259,694	5	0%
Orcas Island Historical Society	$244,698	5	43%
San Juan County Public Hospital District #3	$226,468	3	n/a
Orcas Medical Foundation	$209,305	2	18%
University of California Davis	$203,222	6	n/a
Orcas Recycling Services	$186,363	6	5%
Friends of the San Juans	$156,810	7	3%
Sail Orcas - a Sailing Education Foundation	$147,423	8	33%
Kwiaht Center for Salish Sea	$142,749	8	31%
Salmonberry Country Day School	$138,870	7	5%
Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce	$135,306	6	47%
Orcas Aviation Association	$128,486	4	n/a
San Juan Islands Argricultural Guild	$126,216	2	48%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$123,000	4	n/a
Kiwanis International Inc	$101,523	5	74%
Long Live the Kings	$100,172	5	2%
Northwest Indian College Foundation	$99,000	2	6%
San Juan Islands Conservation District	$81,295	5	n/a
Healing Arts Center	$80,480	5	18%
Church of the Redeemer	$80,000	1	n/a
Siskiyou Land Conservancy	$80,000	2	9%
Employment Security Department	$71,000	1	n/a
Nreca Group Benefits Trust	$70,075	4	0%
Cascade Public Media	$62,050	3	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Orcas Island Foundation	$55,900	4	6%
Jpr Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Orcas Island Booster Club	$49,195	4	27%
Orcas Island Lit Fest	$47,785	5	n/a
Orcas Open Arts	$47,680	5	9%
West Sound Community Club	$46,618	2	n/a
Orcas Choral Society	$43,918	5	n/a
Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre	$42,043	5	3%
Orcas Family Health Center	$41,784	3	4%
Friends of the Olga Store Building	$41,781	3	7%
San Juan Islands Shuttle System	$41,475	2	10%
Music Advocacy Group	$41,450	3	n/a
San Juan County Parks	$40,000	1	n/a
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources	$40,000	1	80%
Airhawks Flying Club	$39,660	3	n/a
Orcas Island Lions Club Foundation	$38,920	3	22%
Olga Strawberry Council	$37,250	3	n/a
Washington State Grange Orcas Island 964	$36,000	2	n/a
Orcas Island Parks and Rec District	$32,296	4	n/a
Island Stewards	$31,750	3	n/a
Orcas Community Participatory Agriculture	$31,405	1	n/a
Friends of Moran State Park	$30,822	2	13%
Deer Harbor Community Club	$30,224	2	37%
Palm of Christ Foundation	$30,000	1	74%
Davidson College	$30,000	2	0%
Cobscook Community Learning Center	$30,000	2	1%
Actors Theater of Orcas Island	$28,995	2	n/a
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Mount C	$26,266	2	25%
Orcas Island Community Church	$25,992	3	n/a
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$25,000	1	n/a
The Colorado College	$25,000	1	0%
Recovery in Community	$25,000	1	n/a
American Legion Post 93	$25,000	1	n/a
Orcas Island Volunteer Firefighters Association	$24,215	2	83%
Washington Vocational Services	$23,435	3	0%
National Park Foundation	$22,800	2	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Torchbearr	$20,000	1	16%
New Beginnings	$20,000	1	0%
Orcas Island Farmers Market	$19,235	3	15%
Deer Harbor Marina	$18,750	1	n/a
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$16,250	3	0%
Point Defiance Zoological Society	$15,000	2	0%
Western Washington University	$14,400	1	n/a
Islands' Oil Spill Association	$13,475	2	2%
San Juan County Economic Development Council	$13,040	2	2%
Orcas Island Rowing Association	$12,855	1	n/a
Mercy Corps	$11,600	1	0%
The Woman in the Woods Presentations Society	$11,500	2	15%
The Uc Davis Foundation	$11,500	1	0%
Orcas Island Football Club	$11,270	1	n/a
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	$11,180	2	n/a
Seattle Area Feline Rescue Fka Animal Talk Rescue	$11,000	1	1%
Turning the Wheel Productions Inc	$10,016	1	4%
Orcas Island Forest School	$10,010	1	15%
Traditional Foodways	$10,000	1	n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Pike Place Market Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives	$10,000	2	0%
Matthew 25	$10,000	1	0%
Lahari	$9,680	1	n/a
Eagle Spirit	$7,700	1	n/a
Concert Artists Guild Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio	$5,300	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$5,000	1	0%
Cherish Our Children Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Reclaim the American Dream Org	$5,000	1	n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($933k), not named here.

Orcas Island Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 75.

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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.

Orcas Bay FoundationWA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orcas Bay Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · The GreerSolien Fund · Www Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Sos Foundation · San Juan Island Community Foundation · Dutton Jones Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Brown Dog 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.

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About Orcas Island Community Foundation

How much does Orcas Island Community Foundation give?: Orcas Island Community Foundation reported 61 itemized grants totaling $4,497,064, out of $6,335,823 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Orcas Island Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Orcas Island Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orcas Island Food Bank ($4.4M), Opal Community Land Trust ($3.9M), Orcas Community Resource Center ($2.8M).
Does Orcas Island Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Orcas Island Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orcas Bay Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Donald Family Foundation.
Where is Orcas Island Community Foundation based?: Orcas Island Community Foundation is based in WA.