Washington · Nonprofit
ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK
ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,591,628 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,868,410). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- San Juan Island Community Foundationlocal
- Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bankportfolio match
- Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Countiesportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $23k → $141k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 24 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
ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 50% · 2019 80% · 2020 70% · 2021 36% · 2022 71% · 2023 59% — 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
78% of ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
95% of ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK'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 $207k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- San Juan Island Community FoundationlocalWA · funds 44 organizations near you
- Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Countiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Lifelineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Harvest Emmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- EastWest Food Rescueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Juan Islands Argricultural GuildlocalWA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Parnell Family FoundationlocalWA · funds 11 organizations near you
- The Tom and Ellie Frazier Charitable Foundation InlocalWA · funds 6 organizations near you
- Orcasong InstitutelocalOR · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Family FoundationlocalWA · funds 7 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$105k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK?
- ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK (Washington) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,591,628 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,868,410). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $4,591,628 in grants to ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK?
- ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,868,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing