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· Private foundation
ORCASONG INSTITUTE
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$85k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
2
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Arts & Culture$97kFood & Nutrition$28kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$10kInternational$5kAnimals$1kEducation$200Environment$150Other$40k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
members economiceconomic recovery
2022
juan islandssan juan
2023
orcas
2024
orcasfestival
2025
orcasfestival
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$705k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ORCAS CENTER$25,000
- ORCAS ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL$12,179
- ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$12,000
- PALM SPRINGS SUNUP ROTARY FOUNDATION$10,000
- PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION$10,000
- ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
- CORAZON LLC$5,000
- ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
04
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$155k · 4 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
11
Total granted
$155k
$9k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+115%
+26%
Still filing today
75%
27%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
- OCORCAS CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +85%
- SJSAN JUAN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL GUILD2× · 2018–2022 · $28k · revenue +313%
- OIORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- LSLEADERSHIP SAN JUAN ISLANDSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- PSPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FORMERLY THE WARINGone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BCBREANNA CURREYone grant, 2021 · $800
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
Friends of Orcas Senior Center
Orcas Senior Center (OSC) engages the community to provide services, advocacy, and support so that people can live and age well on Orcas Island.
Human Services
2
Orcas Open Arts
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…
Unclassified
3
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Friends of Seattle Waterfront
To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public
Community Improvement
6
Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition
Restoration of Salmon Habitat
Environment
7
Orcas Community Resource Center
To ensure that all orcas islanders have access to services and support for their well-being.
Human Services
8
Stewardship Partners
Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscape of Washington State.
Environment
9
Olympia Community Solar
To steward an equitable and accessible transition to clean energy through community solar education, policy, and project development.
Environment
10
Port Angeles Food Bank
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Food & Nutrition
11
Orcas Island Food Bank
The mission of the orcas island food bank is to work with our community to prevent hunger.
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12
Cascades Carnivore Project
We are a conservation and scientific research nonprofit organization. Our mission is to study and restore carnivore populations at risk of extinction and the mountain ecosystems they call home through innovative science, strong…
Science & Tech
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.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$97,000Other$40,829Food & Nutrition$27,650Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$10,000International$5,000Animals$1,000
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 SAN JUAN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL GUILD ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS SUNUP ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORAZON LLC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- 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.
Daniel and Margaret Carper FoundationWA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PALM SPRINGS SUNUP ROTARY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 330929786 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PALM SPRINGS SUNUP ROTARY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Orcasong Institute?
Find your warmest path to Orcasong Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines