How much does The Skagit Community Foundation give?

The Skagit Community Foundation reported 72 itemized grants totaling $1,550,175, out of $1,947,719 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Skagit Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (16%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are The Skagit Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Mount Vernon ($1.0M), Community Action of Skagit County ($442k), Helping Hands Solution Center ($295k).

Does The Skagit Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Skagit Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Jerry H Walton Foundation.

Where is The Skagit Community Foundation based?

The Skagit Community Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Community foundation

The Skagit Community Foundation

To connect people who care with causes that matter.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 72
Itemized grants FY2024: 59
Organizations funded FY2023: 34%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 59; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations The Skagit Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	71	$1.6M	39%
FY2023	59	$2.0M	34%
FY2022	51	$876k	31%
FY2021	46	$990k	30%
FY2020	45	$923k	47%
FY2019	25	$489k	32%
FY2018	27	$302k	48%
FY2017	18	$221k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.0MHuman Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$637kHealth$631kArts & Culture$619kFood & Nutrition$598kYouth Development$464kPublic Safety & Disaster$395kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Mount Vernon	$1,045,471	4	n/a
Community Action of Skagit County	$441,818	8	1%
Helping Hands Solution Center	$295,099	3	n/a
Humane Society of Skagit County	$274,833	8	4%
Children's Museum of Skagit County	$262,300	6	11%
Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County	$229,304	7	1%
The Skagit Valley Family YMCA	$201,214	7	1%
Anacortes Family Center	$189,578	6	3%
Family Promise of Skagit Valley	$186,235	7	10%
Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association	$145,147	8	2%

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All grantees of The Skagit Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Mount Vernon	$1,045,471	4	n/a
Community Action of Skagit County	$441,818	8	1%
Helping Hands Solution Center	$295,099	3	n/a
Humane Society of Skagit County	$274,833	8	4%
Children's Museum of Skagit County	$262,300	6	11%
Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County	$229,304	7	1%
The Skagit Valley Family YMCA	$201,214	7	1%
Anacortes Family Center	$189,578	6	3%
Family Promise of Skagit Valley	$186,235	7	10%
Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association	$145,147	8	2%
New Earth Recovery	$143,000	8	8%
Anacortes Schools Foundation	$140,000	2	10%
Skagit Adult Day Care	$123,375	7	10%
Children of the Valley	$118,983	5	13%
Skagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services	$117,419	7	2%
Mount Vernon Library Foundation	$108,816	5	9%
Foundation for Academic Endeavors	$101,950	6	7%
Skagit Symphony	$101,705	5	14%
Island Hospital Foundation	$101,000	1	3%
City of Anacortes	$99,000	1	n/a
Skagit Preschool and Resource Center	$93,300	8	1%
Skagit Gleaners	$92,948	8	5%
Brigid Collins House	$88,364	7	1%
Rehema Ministries	$83,000	3	8%
Northwest Youth Services	$82,500	7	0%
University of Washington	$77,670	3	n/a
Northwest Agriculture Business Center	$68,068	3	2%
Skagit Opera DBA Pacific Northwest Opera	$67,394	2	17%
Immigrant Resources and Immediate Support	$67,000	5	16%
St Charles	$61,250	2	n/a
Camp Korey	$59,500	6	0%
Skagit Valley College Foundation	$56,000	4	1%
Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni	$55,503	5	0%
Youth Dynamics	$50,000	1	1%
Skagit Valley College	$46,687	5	n/a
Foundation of District 304	$46,000	2	8%
Camp Fire Samish	$45,600	3	3%
Westminister Presbyterian Church	$44,999	3	n/a
Skagit Bay Search and Rescue	$43,000	1	n/a
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$41,835	3	0%
North Cascades Institute	$40,000	5	0%
Youthnet	$39,500	5	0%
Viva Farms	$37,141	3	1%
Angels For Angels	$37,000	2	1%
Skagit Valley Neighbors in Need	$36,500	2	1%
Skagit Hospice Foundation	$36,500	2	4%
Mount Vernon School District	$34,492	2	n/a
College Success Foundation	$32,785	3	0%
Museum of Northwest Art	$32,661	5	1%
United Way of Skagit County	$32,500	3	2%
Washington State University	$32,217	4	n/a
Western Washington University	$31,724	1	n/a
Skagit Valley Chorale	$30,650	2	26%
Communities in School of Whatcom Skagit	$30,000	2	2%
Theater Arts Guild	$25,519	1	13%
Skagit Habitat for Humanity	$24,773	2	2%
Washington Vocational Services	$24,400	3	0%
Association of Firefighters for Cedardale Fire Department	$23,695	2	n/a
A Simple Gesture - Anacortes	$23,000	1	27%
The Salish Sea School	$22,900	2	4%
Skagit Valley Early Learning Center	$22,000	2	2%
Skagit Regional Health Foundation	$22,000	2	2%
InFocus Ministries	$21,835	1	2%
Mt Baker Youth Symphony	$21,800	2	n/a
Helping Hands Food Bank	$21,319	2	0%
Skagit Mountain Rescue Unit Inc	$20,679	3	n/a
Mount Vernon Senior Center Advisory Committee	$20,027	2	n/a
Back Country Horsemen of America	$20,000	1	8%
Skagit Land Trust	$20,000	1	0%
Opportunity Council	$20,000	2	0%
Skagit Council on Aging	$20,000	1	5%
Love in the Name of Christ of Skagi	$20,000	2	5%
Ipa Foundation	$20,000	1	6%
La Conner Library Foundation	$19,700	1	31%
Triumph Teen Life Center	$19,250	1	3%
Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands	$19,082	3	3%
Fosterful	$18,000	3	4%
Secret Harbor	$16,500	2	0%
Alger Improvement Club	$16,500	1	n/a
Fiddlehead Montessori School	$16,000	1	3%
Anacortes Youth Sports Coalition	$16,000	2	22%
Diaper Bank of Skagit County	$15,250	2	19%
Skagit Animals in Need	$15,055	2	12%
Clear Lake Elementary Parents Group	$15,000	1	n/a
Peacehealth St Joseph Medical Center Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Chinook Enterprises	$14,500	2	0%
Invested	$14,000	1	1%
Vamos Outdoors Project	$12,000	1	6%
Anacortes Rotary Charitable Assn	$12,000	1	3%
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service	$12,000	1	0%
Lighthouse Ministries Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Eastern Washington University	$11,921	1	n/a
Catholic Community Services Farmworkers Center	$11,500	1	n/a
City of Sedro Woolley	$11,010	1	n/a
Upper Skagit Library District	$11,000	1	n/a
Marblemount Community Club Inc	$10,850	1	n/a
Concrete Youth Sports Association	$10,717	1	14%
Eyewitness Missions	$10,000	1	24%
Skagit Legal Aid	$10,000	1	1%
Anacortes Baseball Club	$10,000	1	n/a
Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland	$10,000	1	2%
Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington	$10,000	2	0%
Skagit	$10,000	1	n/a
Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies	$10,000	1	n/a
North Cascade Seventh Day Adventist Churchwashington Conference of Seventh	$10,000	1	n/a
Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum	$10,000	1	3%
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm	$10,000	1	1%
Greater Seattle Business Assn Scholarship Fund	$10,000	1	1%
New Earth Tierra Nueva	$10,000	1	n/a
Sacred Earth Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
The San Juan Preservation Trust	$10,000	1	0%
SPOT Saving Pets One At A Time	$9,500	1	5%
Skagit County Historical Society	$9,026	1	2%
Concrete Food Bank Association	$9,000	1	n/a
Anacortes Senior Activity Center Foundation	$9,000	1	5%
Northwest Justice Project	$8,500	1	0%
Padilla Bay Foundation	$8,000	1	3%
The Mockingbird Society	$8,000	1	0%
La Conner Sunrise Food Bank	$7,500	1	1%
Barrier Breakers Foundation	$7,500	1	n/a
Best Dental Help	$7,500	1	1%
Junior Achievement of Washington	$7,000	1	0%
Fidalgo Pool & Fitness Center	$7,000	1	n/a
Sedro Woolley Alumni & Schools Foundation	$7,000	1	3%
Sunflower Fund	$6,744	1	3%
Burlington-Edison Choir Boosters	$6,540	1	n/a
Compass Health	$6,500	1	0%
The Anacortes Museum Foundation	$6,500	1	21%
Safe Harbor Free Clinic	$6,000	1	1%
Northwest Organization for Animal Help	$6,000	1	0%
Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre	$6,000	1	1%
Washington State University Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Nami Skagit County	$6,000	1	n/a
Washington's National Park Fund	$5,500	1	0%
Sedro Woolley Museum	$5,000	1	n/a
Mount Vernon Parks Foundation	$5,000	1	10%
Washington First Robotics	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.

The Skagit Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 104.

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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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE72.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · United Way of Skagit County · Tucker Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Janson Foundation · Jack and Shirley McIntyre Foundation · School's Out Washington · PeaceHealth · Whatcom Community 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.

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About The Skagit Community Foundation

How much does The Skagit Community Foundation give?: The Skagit Community Foundation reported 72 itemized grants totaling $1,550,175, out of $1,947,719 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Skagit Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (16%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are The Skagit Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Mount Vernon ($1.0M), Community Action of Skagit County ($442k), Helping Hands Solution Center ($295k).
Does The Skagit Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Skagit Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Jerry H Walton Foundation.
Where is The Skagit Community Foundation based?: The Skagit Community Foundation is based in WA.