· Community foundation
Orcas Island Community Foundation
Fostering philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on orcas island.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $509k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- OIORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue ×37
- OCOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +226% · 41% of their budget
- OCORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +503% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- SJSAN JUAN ISLANDS CONSERVATION DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $249k
- TGTOTAL GRANTS UNDER 5K EACHone grant, 2020 · $185k
- SJSAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILDgraduatedone 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.
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.
Fostering philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on orcas island.
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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.
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
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…
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
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.
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.