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Whidbey Community Foundation

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

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $988,779, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,267,239 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $278,460 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 $10k14 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $364k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $531k
$10,069
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL$140,000
ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL$128,000
WHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS$80,250
GOOSEFOOT COMMUNITY FUND$70,000
ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES$57,569
READINESS TO LEARN$55,168
WHIDBEY INSTITUTE$46,000
WHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST$38,500
WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES$29,718
WHIDBEY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK$25,500
GOOD CHEER$25,200
WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION$25,000
HOME ON WHIDBEY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$25,000
HEDGEBROOK$24,000
FRIENDS OF FRIENDS MEDICAL SUPPORT FUND$16,468
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 (FY20–24, $767k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REALIZE IMPACT: $25k → 10%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $150k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $140k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $100k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $81k → 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $28k → 7%RYAN'S HOUSE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 7%I SUPPORT THE GIRLS: $10k → 7%TODDLER LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 7%RYAN'S HOUSE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 7%STEPS: $8k → 7%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $58k → 7%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $36k → 7%ISLAND SENIOR RESOURCES: $32k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS WHIDBEY ISLAND: $12k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS WHIDBEY ISLAND: $11k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS WHIDBEY ISLAND: $6k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $6k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS WHIDBEY ISLAND: $6k → 7%MOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $5k → 7%SOUTH WHIDBEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 7%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 34 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
18

Total granted

$2.3M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • OC
    OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $499k · revenue +77%
  • RT
    Readiness To Learn
    5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +39%
  • OF
    ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $174k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • OH
    OAK HARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $32k
  • Realize Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • OH
    OAK HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +84%
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
South Whidbey Tilth Association

Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture

Food & Nutrition
2
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
3
South Whidbey Project

To improve the community of South Whidbey Island through public projects, education, engagement, and opportunity.

Community Improvement
4
Whidbey Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Whidbey Island Waldorf School

Our mission is to provide a waldorf education for children from preschool through grade 8, which nurtures and cultivates each student to develop their capacity to learn, grow, serve, and become a full and active member of the community.

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6
Historic Whidbey

Protection, preservation, and promotion of historic sites on whidbey island through education and advocacy

Arts & Culture
7
South Whidbey Commons

The Mission of the South Whidbey Commons is to provide an intentional third place for the community to gather. The space, programs, volunteer, and job training opportunities are designed to build community and create connections. It's a…

Recreation & Sports
8
Friends of Orcas Senior Center

Orcas Senior Center (OSC) engages the community to provide services, advocacy, and support so that people can live and age well on Orcas Island. Orcas Senior Center supports this community through a variety of opportunities, programs,…

Human Services
9
Oak Harbor Music Festival

The festival is dedicated to hosting a world-class 3-day event which contributes vibrance to the community.

Arts & Culture
10
Island County Master Gardeners

The Island County Master Gardener Foundations main goal is to support the WSU Master Gardener program in Island County. Volunteers conduct outreach programs sharing research-based details on sustainable gardening and environmental…

Environment
11
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
12
Lighthouse Environmental Programs

The education of the general public about Island County's cultural and environmental heritage as well as the protection of the environment.For program services related to Sound Water Stewards, Other Washington Lighthouses, Other Island…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sound Water Stewards of Island County; the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Island County. 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

57 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. 57 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
40/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $499,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY COUNCILSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $135,378 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTYMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $39,900 · Human Services+5 more: $93,200 · Human Services+5 moreReadiness To Learn: $260,316 · EducationReadiness To LearnORGANIC FARM SCHOOL: $173,500 · EducationORGANIC FARM SCHOOLSOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $31,169 · EducationSOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOLS…+4 more: $28,000 · Education+4 moreWHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $141,250 · Arts & CultureWHIDBEY ISLAND…THE WHIDBEY INSTITUTE: $96,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WHIDBEY IN…ISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $26,500 · Arts & CultureISLAND SHAKESP…HEDGEBROOK: $24,000 · Arts & CultureHEDGEBROOKSARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $18,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA CHAMB…ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $15,800 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,300 · Arts & CultureSOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION: $137,000 · Housing & ShelterHome on Whidbey A Community Land Trust: $50,100 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH WHIDBEY GOOD CHEER: $77,200 · Food & NutritionWHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES: $68,203 · Food & NutritionSPIN CAFE: $17,600 · Food & NutritionGIFTS FROM THE HEART FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $91,500 · EnvironmentWHIDBEY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK: $35,500 · EnvironmentPACIFIC RIM INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: $14,200 · EnvironmentFORTERRA NW: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,200 · EnvironmentOAK HARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT: $32,000 · OtherOAK HARBOR SCHOOL DI…GOOSEFOOT COMMUNITY FUND: $85,000 · OtherGOOSEFOOT COMMUNITY …FRIENDS OF FRIENDS: $34,568 · OtherFRIENDS OF FRIENDSWHIDBEY ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $22,500 · OtherHUB - YOUTH CENTRAL: $20,881 · OtherSOUTH WHIDBEY PARKS AND AQUATICS FOUNDATION: $20,700 · OtherVETERANS RESOURCE CENTER: $20,600 · OtherBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 · Other+21 more: $203,437 · Other+21 more
Human Services$767,478Education$492,985Arts & Culture$331,850Housing & Shelter$187,100Food & Nutrition$173,003Environment$156,400Other$471,686

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $499,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetReadiness To Learn: $260,316 over 5y, 19% of budgetORGANIC FARM SCHOOL: $173,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $141,250 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION: $137,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF ISLAND COUNTY: $135,378 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WHIDBEY INSTITUTE: $96,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWHIDBEY CAMANO LAND TRUST: $91,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOOSEFOOT COMMUNITY FUND: $85,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY GOOD CHEER: $77,200 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES: $68,203 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetHome on Whidbey A Community Land Trust: $50,100 over 3y, 52% of budgetMOTHER MENTORS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND: $39,900 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetWHIDBEY ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK: $35,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRIENDS: $34,568 over 3y, 12% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $31,169 over 3y, 14% of budgetISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $26,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetRealize Impact: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEDGEBROOK: $24,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUB - YOUTH CENTRAL: $20,881 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY PARKS AND AQUATICS FOUNDATION: $20,700 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetVETERANS RESOURCE CENTER: $20,600 over 3y, 15% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRYAN'S HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $18,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSTEPS: $17,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPIN CAFE: $17,600 over 2y, 12% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $15,800 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCoupeville Schools Foundation: $15,300 over 2y, 10% of budgetOAK HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHELPING HAND OF SOUTH WHIDBEY: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ISLAND COUNTY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC RIM INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: $14,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGIRAFFE PROJECT INC: $13,100 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSNO-ISLE LIBRARIES FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFor the Girls Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTS FROM THE HEART FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ISLAND COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARAGE OF BLESSINGS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetENSO HOUSE: $7,750 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOUPEVILLE FARM TO SCHOOL: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSkagit Valley College Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Island ThriftPuget Sound Energy Fo…Goosefoot Community F…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…The Albertsons Compan…Tinyblue FoundationLucky Seven FoundationEncourage & Impact Fo…The Virginia Wellingt…ArtsfundMedina Foundation
Island ThriftWA51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Island Thrift · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Goosefoot Community Fund · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Tinyblue Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Encourage & Impact Foundation · The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation · Artsfund · Medina 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 Whidbey Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whidbey Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Whidbey Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Whidbey 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 64 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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