Island Thrift
Oak Harbor, WA · EIN 91-0996800. Reported 83 grants totalling $860,215 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Island Thrift, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P29Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $7,500. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $14,400; the smallest was $500 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Snohomish County | Everett, WA | $195,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oak Harbor Music Festival | Oak Harbor, WA | $82,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | Oak Harbor, WA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Steps | Oak Harbor, WA | $61,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oak Harbor Senior Center | Oak Harbor, WA | $57,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Whidbey Island Womens Clinic | Oak Harbor, WA | $45,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pby Memorial Foundation | Oak Harbor, WA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Citizens Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse | Coupeville, WA | $44,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Senior Services of Island County | Langley, WA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Whidbey Island Hospital Foundation | Coupeville, WA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Soroptimist International of Oak Harbor Foundation | Oak Harbor, WA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Spin Cafe | Oak Harbor, WA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Coupeville Farm to School | Coupeville, WA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mother Mentors of Whidbey Island | Langley, WA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Whidbey Help | Oak Harbor, WA | $14,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oak Harbor Education Foundation | Oak Harbor, WA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $10,065 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Island Senior Resources | Freeland, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mighty to Save Ministries | Oak Harbor, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mother Mentors | Langley, WA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Readiness to Learn | Langley, WA | $8,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| South Whidbey Parks and Aquatics Foundation | Langley, WA | $8,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oak Harbor Main Street Association | Oak Harbor, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Agrarian Land Trust | S Royalton, VT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opportunity Council | Bellingham, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Positively Linked Inc | Oak Harbor, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Whidbey Volleyball Clug | Oak Harbor, WA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Officers Spouses Club of Whidbey Island | Oak Harbor, WA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Whidbey Royalty | Oak Harbor, WA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oak Harbor High School | Oak Harbor, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| All Island Comminity Band | Coupeville, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Male Ensemble Northwest | Puyallup, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Whidbey Cooperative Preschool | Coupeville, WA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Backyard Whidbey Island | Langley, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Click Community | Oak Harbor, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Whidbey Hearts & Hammers | Oak Harbor, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Whidbey Childrens Theater | Langley, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meander Dance Collective | Freeland, WA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
21 of 38 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Pby Memorial Foundation
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION GRANT FOR A NEW MUSEUM BUILDING FOR THE NAVAL AIR MUSEUM IN OAK HARBOR WA AS WELL AS A MATCHING GRANT EVENT SPONSORSHIP FOR THE PBY CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT 2024 TO RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NAVEL AIR MUSEUM IN OAK HARBOR WA - Big Brothers Big Sisters
Matching grant event sponsorship for the Annual Festival of Trees Gala Fundraiser 2023 to raise funds to provide youth mentoring services in Island County, WA - Boys and Girls Club
Matching grant event sponsorship for the Bids for Kids Dinner Auction 2023 to raise funds to provide youth services in Oak Harbor, WA - Oak Harbor Music Festival
Matching grant event sponsorship for the Oak Harbor Music Festival to provide a free community music festival in Oak Harbor, WA - Oak Harbor Music Fesival
MATCHING GRANT EVENT SPONSORSHIP FOR THE OAK HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL TO PROVIDE A FREE COMMUNITY MUSIC FESTIVAL IN OAK HARBOR WA - Boys and Girls Club of Oak Harbor
MATCHING GRANT EVENT SPONSORSHIP FOR THE BIDS FOR KIDS DINNER AUCTION 2024 TO RAISE FUNDS TO PROVIDE YOUTH SERVICES IN OAK HARBOR WA
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $222,400 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $220,550 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 30 | $228,865 | $5,032 |
| 2024 | 14 | $188,400 | $11,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $7,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Island Thrift's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 14 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 600 Se Barrington, Oak Harbor, WA, 98277.
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