Washington · Nonprofit
Bainbridge Island Downtown Association
Bainbridge Island Downtown Association (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,525 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($17,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $151k
What Bainbridge Island Downtown Association does
Mission
BIDA provides support by building community through a vibrant downtown, facilitates local involvement in downtown interests, and promotes aesthetic design and economic vitality of the downtown corridor.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A Walkabout Guide is produced each year to help assist visitors in locating and patronizing local businesses which choose to advertise in this publication. The City of Bainbridge, through their Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC), helps subsidize this effort, acknowledging the positive impact that this guide has for local business and revenue.
$49,825 spentof which $28,967 as grants$78,668 earned by the program47% of program spendingThe Annual 3rd of July Street Dance is an event which draws thousands of local residents and non-resident participants. Bands, food booths, and children themed activities take over the main downtown street for an evening of fun and revelry; and which acts as a lead-in to the 4th of July festivities the following day.
$18,506 spent$27,122 earned by the program17% of program spendingAn annual Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony is used to kick off the shopping season for local merchants as part of the Shop Local campaign.
$10,488 spent$5,725 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther programs include: 1)First Friday Art Walks 2)Bainbridge is Blooming 3)Flower Basket beautifiction program 4)Halloween Trick or Treating in Downtown Winslow 5)Oktoberfest Event
$27,002 spent$3,050 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $105,821.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $66k to $142k (+116%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 17% · 2019 22% · 2020 13% · 2021 32% · 2022 7% · 2024 23% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Bainbridge Island Downtown Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John Carson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of Bainbridge Island Downtown Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Bainbridge Island Downtown Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Bainbridge Island Downtown Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
64% of Bainbridge Island Downtown Association's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Bainbridge Island Downtown Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Bainbridge Island Downtown Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bainbridge Island Downtown Association: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bainbridge Island Downtown Association?
- Bainbridge Island Downtown Association (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,525 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($17,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bainbridge Island Downtown Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,525 in grants to Bainbridge Island Downtown Association.
- Who is the largest funder of Bainbridge Island Downtown Association?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bainbridge Island Downtown Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing