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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.
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.
The 40 grants below total $1,100,295 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,504,669 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $404,374 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $381k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $382k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR | $266,766 |
| JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $113,209 |
| SAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE | $78,487 |
| ALCHEMY ART CENTER | $72,210 |
| SPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $59,949 |
| SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST | $57,822 |
| AKA'ULA CAT GARDEN | $22,000 |
| SAN JUAN ISLANDS CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $21,776 |
| FAMILY UMBRELLA GROUP | $21,000 |
| SAN JUAN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL GUILD | $20,570 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ISLAND STAGE LEFT | $19,550 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $19,000 |
| WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER | $18,857 |
| FAMILIES & NEIGHBORS SUPPORT ISLAND REC | $18,743 |
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, $523k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- APANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14% · 58% of their budget
- JLJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER5× · 2017–2024 · $513k · revenue +283%
- SJSAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $242k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- SSSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUANone grant, 2017 · $321k · revenue -88% · 35% of their budget
- PIPEACE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $200k
- SJSAN JUAN ISLAND GRANGE 966one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +10% · 38% 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.
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.
The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Multi-day science research trips aboard a 160' sailing vessel and a 40' motorized research vessel, and extended onshore watershed research projects for middle and high school students in the puget sound region. also programs for teachers…
The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…
Public education about whales of the pacific northwest: their habitat, health, and safety needs. data gathering and reporting to scientific researchers.
Better is our mission, improving lives through personalized health and care
Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to protect Puget Sound. In 2025. 10,031 K-12 students and 79,363 adults took part in an environmental education opportunity focused on marine and estuary…
The San Juan Symphony is an innovative regional orchestra that contributes to the cultural enrichment of the diverse communities of the Four Corners area with inspiring live performances and creative, collaborative efforts.
San juan resource conservation and development council, inc.'s mission is to protect and improve the natural, cultural, historic and economic resources of the eight county area of southwest colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the San Juans and the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 77 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 ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR ↗
- Who funds FRIDAY HARBOR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ALCHEMY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST ↗
- Who funds ISLAND STAGE LEFT ↗
- Who funds FRIDAY HARBOR FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Pads for Parkinsons ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD ↗
- Who funds San Juan Islands Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SAFE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds MT BAKER PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLAND GRANGE 966 ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HAVEN ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS SCULPTURE PARK ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Meeker Rom Grausz Family Foundation · The Loyal Bigelow and Jedediah Dewey Foundation · PeaceHealth · The Stocker Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Andah Foundation · The Mary See 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 San Juan 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% 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.
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