· Private foundation
Orcasong Institute
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAGE | $20,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $17,000 |
| ORCAS ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL | $12,500 |
| PALM SPRINGS SUNUP ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION | $10,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY | $10,000 |
| THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE DESERT | $10,000 |
| ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LODGE NO 1 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS | $250 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- SJSAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD2× · 2018–2022 · $28k · revenue +149%
- PSPalm Springs International Piano Competition3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +8%
- PSPalm Springs Sunup Rotary Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +412% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- CICORAZON INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -4%
- LSLEADERSHIP SAN JUAN ISLANDSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $800
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.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
To ensure that all orcas islanders have access to services and support for their well-being.
We are an Orcas Island based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on creating and supporting a variety of arts programs in the San Juan Archipelago. We believe that the Arts play a vital role in creating and sustaining a healthy…
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Founded in 1978, World Arts West is a nationally-recognized leader in advocating for cultural arts communities. Serving the largest multicultural dance and music network in the United States, we are a wraparound cultural artist service…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orcas Center and the most unlike its peers is Palm Springs Sunup Rotary Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 CENTER ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs International Piano Competition ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs Sunup Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY ↗
- Who funds CORAZON INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LODGE NO 1 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEFT LOVERS ↗
- Who funds Planting Justice ↗
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: Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Orcasong Institute 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.
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