Skip to content
Plinth

· Community foundation

Orcas Island Community Foundation

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

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$4.8MEducation$4.1MFood & Nutrition$4.0MHousing & Shelter$3.8MArts & Culture$3.7MEnvironment$2.3MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$533kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $509k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.4M
$18,750
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK$3,624,259
ORCAS SENIOR CENTER$923,996
ORCAS CENTER$325,090
ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$275,475
ORCAS ISLAND FIRE & RESCUE$255,300
ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$243,886
SAFE SAN JUANS$175,300
KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL$140,691
ORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUMS$128,950
ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY$103,450
FUNHOUSE COMMONS$101,401
SCHWAB CHARITABLE OPERATIONS$100,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE$97,605
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$97,542
ORCAS ISLAND CHILDREN'S HOUSE$93,699
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DEER HARBOR COMMUNITY CLUB: $18k → 10%DEER HARBOR COMMUNITY CLUB: $13k → 10%ORCAS SENIOR CENTER: $924k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $515k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $354k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $343k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $244k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $210k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $149k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $144k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $141k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $137k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $130k → 10%YMCA CAMP ORKILA: $105k → 10%YMCA CAMP ORKILA: $100k → 10%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $90k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $82k → 10%ORCAS RECEYLING SERVICE: $74k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $58k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $58k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $42k → 10%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES THE EXCHANGE: $39k → 10%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES THE EXCHANGE: $37k → 10%KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL: $35k → 10%YMCA CAMP ORKILA: $25k → 10%ORCAS SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 10%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES THE EXCHANGE: $21k → 10%YMCA CAMP ORKILA: $10k → 10%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES THE EXCHANGE: $8k → 10%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES THE EXCHANGE: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 70 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
30

Total granted

$25M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+18%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • OI
    ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue ×37
  • OC
    OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +226% · 41% of their budget
  • OC
    ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +503% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAN JUAN ISLANDS CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $249k
  • TG
    TOTAL GRANTS UNDER 5K EACH
    one grant, 2020 · $185k
  • SJ
    SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $117k · revenue +107% · 48% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
Orcas Island Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
2
Wild Orca

Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.

Animals
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
Orca Conservancy

Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.

Animals
5
San Juan Island Community Foundation

Sji community foundation's mission is to help the san juan island community thrive through inspired and informed generosity and the foundation's trusted stewardship.

Philanthropy
6
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
7
North Olympic Land Trust

To conserve lands that sustain the communities of the olympic peninsula through grants and donations for fee simple ownership and purchased and donated conservation easements.

Environment
8
Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.

Recreation & Sports
9
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

10
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
11
The Island School

The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.

Education
12
North Coast Land Conservancy Inc

The north coast land conservancy serves as a resource for northwest oregon coastal communities and landowners to conserve and protect land in perpetuity for its ecologocial and cultural values.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orcas Center and the most unlike its peers is Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPacific Northwest Community…Youth Development & Support…Animal Rescue and AdoptionSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…Fraternity and Sorority Hou…Youth Sports LeaguesCommunity Philanthropic Fou…Independent Early Childhood…Food Access and Hunger Reli…Youth Music Education & Per…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr19%34%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr12%39%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/107
the rest of the field
13%
1,747/12,954

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.

04the grantee network

77 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 114 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/77
Grantees still filing
47/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK — $3,868,410 · OtherORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANKORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT 137 — $1,418,513 · OtherORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT 137THE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON — $1,026,164 · OtherTHE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ONSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN — $693,093 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUANORCAS ISLAND LIBRARY — $426,875 · Other+73 more — $4,357,861 · Other+73 moreORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $2,043,199 · Human ServicesORCAS COMMUNITY R…FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER — $948,857 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF ORCAS …ORCAS DAYCARE ASSOCIATION — $689,917 · Human ServicesORCAS DAYCARE ASS…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $240,944 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S C…ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES — $186,363 · Human Services+2 more — $35,224 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $1,474,562 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOV…Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival — $1,246,668 · Arts & CultureOrcas Island Cham…ORCAS CENTER — $1,203,005 · Arts & CultureORCAS CENTER+6 more — $86,647 · Arts & CultureOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $3,771,786 · Housing & ShelterOPAL COMMUNITY L…Orcas Island Childrens House — $607,104 · EducationOrcas Montessori School — $333,628 · EducationSalmonberry Country Day School — $121,445 · EducationNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $99,000 · Education+6 more — $112,120 · EducationTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST — $1,134,505 · EnvironmentSiskiyou Land Conservancy — $50,000 · Environment+1 more — $20,000 · EnvironmentORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — $263,666 · AnimalsLONG LIVE THE KINGS — $92,948 · AnimalsWOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE — $31,943 · AnimalsPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · Animals+2 more — $21,000 · Animals
Other$11,790,916Human Services$4,144,504Arts & Culture$4,010,882Housing & Shelter$3,771,786Education$1,273,297Environment$1,204,505Animals$424,557

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK — $3,868,410 over 7y, 20% of budgetOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $3,771,786 over 8y, 41% of budgetORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $2,043,199 over 8y, 49% of budgetCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $1,474,562 over 8y, 76% of budgetOrcas Island Chamber Music Festival — $1,246,668 over 8y, 39% of budgetORCAS CENTER — $1,203,005 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST — $1,134,505 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetTHE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON — $1,026,164 over 8y, 92% of budgetFRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER — $948,857 over 2y, 70% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN — $693,093 over 5y, 69% of budgetORCAS DAYCARE ASSOCIATION — $689,917 over 8y, 12% of budgetOrcas Island Childrens House — $607,104 over 8y, 29% of budgetSAFE SAN JUANS — $346,063 over 8y, 17% of budgetOrcas Montessori School — $333,628 over 8y, 28% of budgetORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — $263,666 over 7y, 42% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $240,944 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORCAS MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $209,305 over 2y, 18% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES — $186,363 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $161,698 over 4y, 43% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS — $138,285 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $137,423 over 7y, 33% of budgetKWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA — $136,849 over 7y, 31% of budgetSalmonberry Country Day School — $121,445 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD — $117,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL INC — $101,523 over 5y, 74% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $99,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $97,605 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS — $92,948 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNRECA GROUP BENEFITS TRUST — $70,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ARTS CENTER — $69,230 over 4y, 18% of budgetORCAS ISLAND FOUNDATION — $55,900 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSiskiyou Land Conservancy — $50,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetORCAS OPEN ARTS — $47,680 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $42,056 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetOrcas Family Health Center — $41,784 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OLGA STORE BUILDING — $41,781 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLANDS SHUTTLE SYSTEM — $41,475 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCircum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources — $40,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetWOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE — $31,943 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetORCAS ISLAND LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION — $31,350 over 2y, 22% of budgetFRIENDS OF MORAN STATE PARK — $30,822 over 2y, 13% of budgetOrcas Island Booster Club — $30,520 over 3y, 27% of budgetDEER HARBOR COMMUNITY CLUB — $30,224 over 2y, 37% of budgetPALM OF CHRIST FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetDavidson College — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCobscook Community Learning Center — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK
  • Who funds OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
  • Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
  • Who funds ORCAS CENTER
  • Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST
  • Who funds THE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN
  • Who funds ORCAS DAYCARE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Orcas Island Childrens House
  • Who funds SAFE SAN JUANS
  • Who funds Orcas Montessori School
  • Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)
  • Who funds ORCAS MEDICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC
  • Who funds ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES
  • Who funds ORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS
  • Who funds SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA
  • Who funds Salmonberry Country Day School
  • Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD
  • Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
  • Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS
  • Who funds NRECA GROUP BENEFITS TRUST

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.

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

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 Island Community 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 114 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph