Washington · Nonprofit
North Whidbey Help House
North Whidbey Help House (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,558 to it, the largest being ISLAND THRIFT ($51,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $623k
What North Whidbey Help House does
Mission
We provide emergency/supplemental food assistance for up to 40,000 needy people in the community, alongside health and welfare checkups via tele-care programs, and USDA supplemental food distribution.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024 Help House distributed food baskets that fed 16,387 people. They also provided 43,864 people with produce and bakery items donated from local stores. They assisted 25 people with the North Whidbey Medical Help fund by providing up to 500 annually for assistance with co-pays, prescriptions, medical equipment and dental care.
$1,027,225 spentof which $126,277 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,027,225.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $437k to $723k (+65%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 17% · 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 18% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $12k → $23k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 North Whidbey Help House’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 12 funders by total. 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
North Whidbey Help House has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 North Whidbey Help House.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
57% of North Whidbey Help House's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
North Whidbey Help House draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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.
Organizations like North Whidbey Help House
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for North Whidbey Help House: 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 North Whidbey Help House?
- North Whidbey Help House (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,558 to it, the largest being ISLAND THRIFT ($51,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does North Whidbey Help House have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $203,558 in grants to North Whidbey Help House, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Whidbey Help House?
- ISLAND THRIFT is the largest funder on record, with $51,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Whidbey Help House 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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