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Tinyblue Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
44
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$519
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,113,412
Organizations funded a year
3 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$232k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Tinyblue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving42$1.1M52%
FY202420$10k30%
FY202325$19k44%
FY202215$9k27%
FY202116$10k56%
FY20209$7k78%
FY20193$3k33%
FY20185$8k60%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$24kHuman Services$14kEnvironment$12kInternational$6kArts & Culture$3kPublic Benefit$3kEducation$3kHealth$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
CO
DC

Top grantees

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

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All grantees of Tinyblue Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Island Roots Housing$1,113,4121n/a
Community Day Center for Children$5,00011%
Senior Services of Island County$4,40040%
United States Association for UNHCR$4,24050%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$2,91360%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$2,85030%
Citizens Climate Education Corp$2,73060%
Earthjustice$2,50060%
The Alliance for Climate Protection$2,21660%
350org$1,80060%
Whidbey Island Nourishes$1,73230%
Citizen's Against Domestic & Sexual Abuse$1,65610%
Sunflower Fund$1,43010%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$1,33820%
Cascade Public Media$1,30010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,19640%
The Commons Law Center$1,0001n/a
Young Women Empowered$1,00010%
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition$90720%
Goosefoot Community Fund$80020%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$77320%
Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation$76020%
Oxfam-America Inc$75720%
Whidbey Camano Land Trust$72910%
Public Citizen Inc$62020%
International Rescue Committee INC$51510%
Fair Elections Center$50820%
Queen-Bee Pantry$5001n/a
Heart of America Foundation$4001n/a
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$40010%
Wild Salmon Center$4001n/a
North Cascades Institute$4001n/a
Giraffe Project Inc$40011%
Northwest Language & Cultural Center$4001n/a
The Wilderness Society$35010%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project$32510%
United States Fund for Unicef$31410%
Ada Developers Academy$26410%
The Whidbey Institute$26310%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$25810%
Whidbey Island Hospital Foundation$25710%
Na'ah Illahee Fund$25610%
Enso House$14410%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tinyblue Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Day Center for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSenior Services of Island County: $4,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,240 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $2,913 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $2,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens Climate Education Corp: $2,730 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance for Climate Protection: $2,216 over 6y, 0.0% of budget350org: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWhidbey Island Nourishes: $1,732 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCitizen's Against Domestic & Sexual Abuse: $1,656 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSunflower Fund: $1,430 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $1,338 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCascade Public Media: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,196 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women Empowered: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Whidbey Homeless Coalition: $907 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGoosefoot Community Fund: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $773 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSno-Isle Libraries Foundation: $760 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $757 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhidbey Camano Land Trust: $729 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Inc: $620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFair Elections Center: $508 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiraffe Project Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Immigrant Rights Project: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $314 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAda Developers Academy: $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whidbey Institute: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhidbey Island Hospital Foundation: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnso House: $144 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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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 36.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Whidbey Community Foundation · The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation · Goosefoot Community Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Riedl Foundation · Island Thrift · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Tinyblue Foundation

How much does Tinyblue Foundation give?
Tinyblue Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $1,146,984 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tinyblue Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Human Services (18%), Environment (16%).
Who are Tinyblue Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Island Roots Housing ($1.1M), Community Day Center for Children ($5k), Senior Services of Island County ($4k).
Does Tinyblue Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tinyblue Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tinyblue Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Whidbey Community Foundation, The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation.
Where is Tinyblue Foundation based?
Tinyblue Foundation is based in WA.

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 71 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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