Washington · Nonprofit
ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL
ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,329 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,010). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Orcas Island Forest School does
Mission
Orcas Island Forest School is dedicated to providing a play-based, all- weather, outdoor early childhood education program that fosters an intimate connection to the natural world and supports children as they develop physically, socially and emotionally.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To have children develop a relationship with nature by using the forest as the classroom and observing the changes that occur with the seasons and the impact they have on the landscape. To have children develop a sense of wonder that comes through direct experience with the natural world that we are called to preserve.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $28k to $36k (+29%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 FOREST SCHOOL’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
ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
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 FOREST SCHOOL.
“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
97% of ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL'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 $319 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL: 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 ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL?
- ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,329 to it, the largest being ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,010). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,329 in grants to ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL?
- ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCAS ISLAND FOREST SCHOOL 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), 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