Washington · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER
FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,256,800 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,172,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $557k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Friends of Orcas Senior Center does
Mission
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, shared meals, and social and educational events; the promotion of "sound mind, sound body" as well as commitment to the community at large.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Orcas Senior Center (OSC) provided a comprehensive range of programs and services to older adults on Orcas Island and throughout San Juan County. In FY2025, 15,889 meals were prepared and delivered through congregate dining and Meals on Wheels. Certified volunteer advisors conducted 1,103 free Medicare counseling appointments via the Washington State SHIBA program. OSC also offered classes, fitness, social activities, and arts programming, generating 28,000+ service interactions. Additionally, OSC provided facility space for Partners in Care, San Juan County Senior Services, foot care, hearing, mammogram screenings, and Department of Labor services.
$198,646 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,646.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $30k to $1.2M (+3881%).
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: 2024 0% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Suzette Lamb
President/Interim Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER’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
FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER.
“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
98% of FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER
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
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER?
- FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,256,800 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,172,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,256,800 in grants to FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER?
- ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,172,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ORCAS SENIOR CENTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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