How much does The West Marin Fund give?

The West Marin Fund reported 32 itemized grants totaling $1,606,021, out of $2,345,521 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The West Marin Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (15%), Human Services (14%).

Who are The West Marin Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Marin Community Services ($717k), Point Reyes National Seashore Association ($665k), 10000 Degrees ($634k).

Does The West Marin Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The West Marin Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.

Where is The West Marin Fund based?

The West Marin Fund is based in CA.

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The West Marin Fund

West marin fund is a community foundation that inspires giving and mobilizes resources to enhance the long-term wellbeing and quality of life for all in coastal west marin.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 32
Itemized grants FY2025: 30
Organizations funded FY2024: 17%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $13,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $375,671
Organizations funded a year: 20 to 37; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $6.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The West Marin Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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
FY2025still arriving	31	$1.6M	29%
FY2024	30	$1.6M	17%
FY2023	31	$995k	13%
FY2022	30	$957k	10%
FY2021	32	$704k	22%
FY2020	37	$1.2M	35%
FY2019	20	$625k	25%
FY2018	23	$447k	43%

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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 2025.

Education$2.1MEnvironment$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$429kArts & Culture$390kRecreation & Sports$339kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
West Marin Community Services	$717,309	8	24%
Point Reyes National Seashore Association	$665,078	5	9%
10000 Degrees	$634,000	6	2%
Extrafood	$601,000	9	5%
Bolinas Community Land Trust	$582,550	9	21%
Marin Agricultural Land Trust	$478,500	9	1%
Community Land Trust Association of West Marin	$350,950	9	3%
West Marin Scholarship Program	$349,000	9	8%
Shoreline Unified School District	$268,995	4	n/a
San Geronimo Valley Community Center	$232,000	5	6%

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All grantees of The West Marin Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
West Marin Community Services	$717,309	8	24%
Point Reyes National Seashore Association	$665,078	5	9%
10000 Degrees	$634,000	6	2%
Extrafood	$601,000	9	5%
Bolinas Community Land Trust	$582,550	9	21%
Marin Agricultural Land Trust	$478,500	9	1%
Community Land Trust Association of West Marin	$350,950	9	3%
West Marin Scholarship Program	$349,000	9	8%
Shoreline Unified School District	$268,995	4	n/a
San Geronimo Valley Community Center	$232,000	5	6%
Parent Services Project	$222,600	6	16%
Commonweal	$199,441	7	1%
Papermill Creek Childrens Corner	$191,000	7	9%
Huukuiko Inc	$160,000	1	8%
Petaluma Health Center Inc	$150,000	1	0%
Point Reyes Bird Observatory	$150,000	2	0%
Magnolia Global Academy for Leaders	$150,000	1	36%
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment & Security	$150,000	5	2%
Bolinas Community Inc	$148,590	7	27%
Innovative Health Solutions	$139,500	5	6%
Marin Promise Partnership	$120,000	2	4%
Dance Palace	$106,000	8	6%
Friends Without a Border	$100,000	3	1%
Gallery Route One	$96,650	9	10%
Postpartum Support Center	$90,000	1	3%
Multiplier	$90,000	6	0%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$90,000	5	0%
West Marin Senior Services	$58,000	6	1%
Bolinas-Stinson Beach School Foundation	$56,925	5	10%
River Otter Ecology Project	$56,500	6	10%
Kwmr	$55,782	5	3%
Mesa Refuge a Nonprofit Corporation	$54,000	3	3%
Tomales Bay Youth Center	$50,531	3	n/a
Canal Alliance	$50,500	1	1%
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin	$50,500	6	2%
Halleck Creek Ranch	$48,000	5	2%
Shoreline Acres Inc	$46,600	3	11%
California Council on Science and Techno logy	$45,000	3	1%
Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc	$40,000	4	0%
The Oakland Public Education Fund	$37,875	1	0%
Two Valleys Community Land Trust	$36,500	3	7%
Friends of the Marin County Free Library	$36,000	1	13%
Community Action Marin	$35,000	2	0%
Bolinas Museum	$34,300	3	3%
Slide Ranch	$33,000	4	1%
New Media Learning Center	$32,300	1	38%
Greater Farallones Association	$30,953	4	1%
Youth Cooking Services	$20,406	2	7%
Coastal Health Alliance	$18,850	3	0%
Bolinas Film Festival Inc	$15,500	1	29%
Nicasio School Foundation	$14,824	2	15%
In Place Learning	$14,000	1	n/a
Black Mountain Circle	$13,700	2	5%
Natura International Inc	$13,000	1	1%
Movement Strategy Center	$12,500	1	0%
Turtle Island Restoration Network	$12,000	2	0%
San Francisco Food Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Legal Aid of Marin	$10,000	1	0%
Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Clean Coast California	$8,000	1	n/a
West Marin Field Committee	$7,500	1	n/a
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Sound Orchard	$7,500	1	n/a
Rocksteady Fest	$7,500	1	n/a
Tomales Town Hall	$7,000	1	16%
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
St Columbas Episcopal Church	$6,500	1	n/a
Bolinas Civic Group	$6,000	1	n/a
Kids Cooking for Life - KCL	$5,232	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($174k), not named here.

The West Marin Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 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 57.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA57.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Patty and Jack Wright Foundation · Bishop Pine Fund · Freitas Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Springcreek Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides 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 West Marin Fund

How much does The West Marin Fund give?: The West Marin Fund reported 32 itemized grants totaling $1,606,021, out of $2,345,521 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The West Marin Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (15%), Human Services (14%).
Who are The West Marin Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Marin Community Services ($717k), Point Reyes National Seashore Association ($665k), 10000 Degrees ($634k).
Does The West Marin Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The West Marin Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is The West Marin Fund based?: The West Marin Fund is based in CA.