How much does Whidbey Community Foundation give?

Whidbey Community Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $988,779, out of $1,267,239 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Whidbey Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are Whidbey Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Opportunity Council ($499k), Readiness To Learn ($260k), Organic Farm School ($174k).

Does Whidbey Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Whidbey Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Island Thrift, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Goosefoot Community Fund.

Where is Whidbey Community Foundation based?

Whidbey Community Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Community foundation

Whidbey Community Foundation

Strengthening the communities of whidbey island for both present and future generations.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 39
Itemized grants FY2024: 28
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $989k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,069
Largest grant, FY2024: $140,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 31; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $5.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Whidbey Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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	38	$979k	29%
FY2023	28	$690k	36%
FY2022	16	$354k	44%
FY2021	11	$256k	36%
FY2020	31	$292k	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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$768kEducation$506kFood & Nutrition$377kHousing & Shelter$237kArts & Culture$231kEnvironment$162kCommunity Improvement$85kYouth Development$63kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Opportunity Council	$499,000	5	0%
Readiness To Learn	$260,316	5	19%
Organic Farm School	$173,500	3	21%
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts	$141,250	3	6%
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition	$137,000	5	6%
Senior Services of Island County	$135,378	4	2%
The Whidbey Institute	$96,000	2	4%
Whidbey Camano Land Trust	$91,500	3	0%
Goosefoot Community Fund	$85,000	2	2%
South Whidbey Good Cheer	$77,200	4	2%

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All grantees of Whidbey Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Opportunity Council	$499,000	5	0%
Readiness To Learn	$260,316	5	19%
Organic Farm School	$173,500	3	21%
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts	$141,250	3	6%
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition	$137,000	5	6%
Senior Services of Island County	$135,378	4	2%
The Whidbey Institute	$96,000	2	4%
Whidbey Camano Land Trust	$91,500	3	0%
Goosefoot Community Fund	$85,000	2	2%
South Whidbey Good Cheer	$77,200	4	2%
Whidbey Island Nourishes	$68,203	4	8%
Home on Whidbey A Community Land Trust	$50,100	3	52%
Mother Mentors of Whidbey Island	$39,900	5	6%
Whidbey Environmental Action Network	$35,500	2	7%
Friends of Friends	$34,568	3	12%
Oak Harbor School District	$32,000	1	n/a
South Whidbey Schools Foundation	$31,169	3	14%
Island Shakespeare Festival	$26,500	3	4%
Realize Impact	$25,000	1	0%
Hedgebrook	$24,000	1	1%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County	$22,500	2	0%
Hub - Youth Central	$20,881	2	11%
South Whidbey Parks and Aquatics Foundation	$20,700	2	9%
Veterans Resource Center	$20,600	3	15%
South Whidbey Children's Center	$20,500	3	1%
Ryan's House	$20,000	2	1%
Saratoga Chamber Orchestra	$18,000	2	6%
Steps	$17,700	2	1%
Spin Cafe	$17,600	2	12%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$16,000	2	0%
Whidbey Island Hospital Foundation	$16,000	2	1%
Island Arts Council	$15,800	1	6%
Coupeville Schools Foundation	$15,300	2	10%
Oak Harbor Educational Foundation	$15,000	1	12%
Hearts and Hammers	$15,000	2	15%
Helping Hand of South Whidbey	$15,000	1	11%
Habitat for Humanity of Island County	$15,000	2	0%
Coupeville School District	$14,500	1	n/a
Pacific Rim Institute for Environmental Stewardship	$14,200	2	1%
Giraffe Project Inc	$13,100	2	9%
Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation	$12,000	2	2%
Boys and Girls Club of Oak Harbor	$10,000	1	n/a
For the Girls Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Gifts From the Heart Food Bank	$10,000	1	3%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Island County	$10,000	1	11%
Forterra Nw	$10,000	1	0%
Atlantis Steam	$8,500	1	n/a
The Garage of Blessings Inc	$8,000	1	16%
Enso House	$7,750	1	13%
Coupeville Farm to School	$7,500	1	4%
Oak Harbor Intermediate PTA 7 7 45	$6,000	1	n/a
Skagit Valley College Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Positively Linked Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Whidbey Watershed Stewards	$6,000	1	7%
North Whidbey Help House	$5,500	1	0%
Island County Historical Society	$5,300	1	2%
Whidbey Animals Improvement Foundation	$5,287	1	0%
Sound Water Stewards of Island County	$5,200	1	3%
Oak Harbor Rotary Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Orca Network	$5,000	1	1%
Washington State University Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Central Whidbey Cooperative Preschool	$5,000	1	n/a
Whidbey Playhouse Association	$5,000	1	3%

Whidbey Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 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 55.

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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.

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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 Whidbey Community Foundation

How much does Whidbey Community Foundation give?: Whidbey Community Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $988,779, out of $1,267,239 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Whidbey Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Education (20%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Whidbey Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Opportunity Council ($499k), Readiness To Learn ($260k), Organic Farm School ($174k).
Does Whidbey Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Whidbey Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Island Thrift, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Goosefoot Community Fund.
Where is Whidbey Community Foundation based?: Whidbey Community Foundation is based in WA.