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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$267k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.5MAnimals$1.2MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$785kRecreation & Sports$763kHealth$612kFood & Nutrition$352kHousing & Shelter$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,100,295, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,504,669 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $404,374 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $381k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $382k
  • $250k+1 grant · $267k
$15,728
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $212k → 10%BAYVIEW MANOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $113k → 10%JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $101k → 10%JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $71k → 10%SAN JUAN ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CEN: $16k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MA
OR
SD
PA
CA
UT
CO
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 48 repeat orgs$907k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
23

Total granted

$6.0M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+29%

Still filing today

71%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14% · 58% of their budget
  • JL
    JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $513k · revenue +283%
  • SJ
    SAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $242k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • SS
    SENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN
    one grant, 2017 · $321k · revenue -88% · 35% of their budget
  • PI
    PEACE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • SJ
    SAN JUAN ISLAND GRANGE 966
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +10% · 38% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Salish Sea School

The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.

Environment
2
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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3
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.

Philanthropy
4
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
5
Center for Whale Research

The center for whale research (cwr) is dedicated to the study and conservation of the pacific northwests killer whale populations, with a primary focus on the critically endangered southern resident killer whales. building on half a…

Science & Tech
6
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Science & Tech
7
Salish Sea Expenditions

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…

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8
Pacific Marine Research

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,…

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9
Orca Network

Public education about whales of the pacific northwest: their habitat, health, and safety needs. data gathering and reporting to scientific researchers.

Animals
10
Madrona Institute

Our primary mission is to engage youth in conservation and stewardship.

Education
11
San Juan Community Theatre Inc

The mission of san juan community theatre is "enriching community through performing arts". san juan community theatre engages community through performing arts, inspiring island residents and visitors of all ages.

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12
South Sound Estuary Association

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the San Juans; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 77 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN JUAN ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $458,256 · OtherSAN JUAN ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN: $321,049 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUANSAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $241,928 · OtherSAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INCFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY: $207,860 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARYSKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE: $201,705 · OtherSKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGEPEACE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · OtherPEACE ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERFRIDAY HARBOR FOOD BANK: $142,304 · OtherSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $184,761 · OtherSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST+38 more: $1,244,059 · Other+38 moreANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR: $1,009,734 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECTION S…WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE: $112,009 · AnimalsWOLF HOLLOW WILDLIF…+3 more: $75,036 · Animals+3 moreFRIDAY HARBOR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $763,164 · Recreation & SportsFRIDAY HARBO…SAN JUAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $259,225 · EducationSAN JUAN P…SPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $198,931 · EducationSPRING STR…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationNORTHEASTE…LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $41,950 · EducationLEWIS & CL…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $34,550 · EducationUNIVERSITY…CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $34,000 · EducationSALISH SEA SCIENCES: $22,200 · Education+2 more: $10,100 · EducationJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $513,319 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesALCHEMY ART CENTER: $202,173 · Arts & CultureISLAND STAGE LEFT: $157,235 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $29,333 · Arts & CultureMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $36,001 · HealthSUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthKWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA: $26,603 · HealthPeaceHealth: $21,620 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $12,400 · Health
Other$3,201,922Animals$1,196,779Recreation & Sports$763,164Education$645,956Human Services$533,319Arts & Culture$405,741Health$186,624

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR: $1,009,734 over 7y, 58% of budgetFRIDAY HARBOR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $763,164 over 2y, 91% of budgetJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $513,319 over 5y, 12% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES COUNCIL OF SAN JUAN: $321,049 over 1y, 35% of budgetSAN JUAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $259,225 over 8y, 52% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $241,928 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY: $207,860 over 6y, 30% of budgetALCHEMY ART CENTER: $202,173 over 5y, 23% of budgetSPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $198,931 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $184,761 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetISLAND STAGE LEFT: $157,235 over 8y, 19% of budgetFRIDAY HARBOR FOOD BANK: $142,304 over 8y, 17% of budgetWOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE: $112,009 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetPads for Parkinsons: $97,497 over 6y, 61% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD: $95,018 over 6y, 11% of budgetSan Juan Islands Museum of Art: $82,916 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSAFE SAN JUANS: $71,044 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMT BAKER PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $55,083 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST: $48,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLAND GRANGE 966: $45,085 over 1y, 38% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $41,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetISLAND HAVEN ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $37,036 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $36,001 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $34,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLANDS SCULPTURE PARK: $30,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF FRIDAY HARBOR: $29,028 over 3y, 16% of budgetHOSPICE OF SAN JUAN: $27,231 over 3y, 16% of budgetKWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA: $26,603 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetSAN JUAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $24,077 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetPeaceHealth: $21,620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM WAY SANCTUARY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS: $13,799 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetORCA BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE: $13,422 over 1y, 20% of budgetSAN JUAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $12,580 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $12,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAYVIEW MANOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN JUAN COUNTY: $6,100 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetTHE WHALE MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Orcas Island Communit…Seattle FoundationThe Meeker Rom Grausz…The Loyal Bigelow and…PeaceHealthThe Stocker FoundationNorth Sound Accountab…The Community Foundat…The Norcliffe Foundat…Andah FoundationThe Mary See Foundati…
Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region IncVA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Juan Island Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Juan Island Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to San Juan Island Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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