· Community foundation
Orcas Island Community Foundation
Fostering philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on orcas island.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $491k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $741,297 |
| ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK | $576,140 |
| ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $330,200 |
| ORCAS ISLAND CHILDREN'S HOUSE | $291,726 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE PRESCHOOL | $267,423 |
| ORCAS MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $224,888 |
| ORCAS SENIOR CENTER | $223,343 |
| ORCAS ISLAND HEALTH CARE DISTRICT | $191,118 |
| ORCAS CENTER | $174,661 |
| FUNHOUSE COMMONS | $149,939 |
| ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT 137 | $109,030 |
| ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $93,250 |
| ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $87,971 |
| ORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUMS | $83,000 |
| OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $82,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OIORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue ×37
- OCOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +795% · 41% of their budget
- OCORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · 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 COUNTY TREASURERone grant, 2024 · $81k
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.
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.
To ensure that all orcas islanders have access to services and support for their well-being.
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.
Fostering philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life on orcas island.
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
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 aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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.
To create a legacy of abundant open space, native habitat, and natural resources on Lummi Island by inspiring people to protect and care for the island's farms, forests, wetlands, and shorelines forever.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 124 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON ↗
- Who funds ORCAS DAYCARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Childrens House ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN ↗
- Who funds Orcas Montessori School ↗
- Who funds SAFE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES ↗
- 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 ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orcas Island Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orcas Island Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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