Jefferson Community Foundation
Port Hadlock, WA · EIN 84-1682682. Reported 191 grants totalling $3,900,619 to 75 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 Jefferson Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 75 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $13,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,250 and $21,500; the smallest was $5,150 and the largest $305,500. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Port Townsend, WA | $432,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Port Townsend School of the Arts | Port Townsend, WA | $211,676 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bayside Housing & Services | Port Hadlock, WA | $179,473 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Strongertowns | Port Townsend, WA | $173,300 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Healthcare Foundation | Port Townsend, WA | $168,366 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates | Port Townsend, WA | $167,980 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Olympic Peninsula Young Mens Christian Assn | Sequim, WA | $160,790 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Land Tr | Port Townsend, WA | $106,380 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Port Townsend Marine Science Center | Port Townsend, WA | $97,494 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Owl 360 | Port Townsend, WA | $84,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Jefferson County Food Bank Association | Port Hadlock, WA | $78,203 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Council of the United States Society of St Vincent De Pa | Maryland Hts, MO | $77,729 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jefferson County Farmers Market | Port Townsend, WA | $75,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jumping Mouse Childrens Center | Port Townsend, WA | $73,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northwest Maritime Center | Port Townsend, WA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dove House Advocacy Services | Port Townsend, WA | $69,050 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County | Port Townsend, WA | $67,130 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jefferson County Historical Society | Port Townsend, WA | $65,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Puget Sound Voyaging Society | Chimacum, WA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Community Wellness Project | Chimacum, WA | $61,168 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Step Family Support Center | Port Angeles, WA | $60,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Olympic Housing Trust | Port Townsend, WA | $59,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Transformations By Austin Angels | Austin, TX | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fort Worden Foundation | Port Townsend, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Key City Players Inc | Port Townsend, WA | $49,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Coyote Foundation | Port Hadlock, WA | $48,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Olympic Neighbors | Port Townsend, WA | $47,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mike Beery Memorial Childrens Fund | Carlsborg, WA | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Clallam County Pro Bono Lawyers | Port Angeles, WA | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Port Townsend School District | Port Townsend, WA | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foster Supports of Jefferson County | Port Hadlock, WA | $41,705 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jc Mash | Port Townsend, WA | $40,550 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community United Methodist Church | Port Hadlock, WA | $40,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Edc Team Jefferson | Port Townsend, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Echho Ecumenical Christian Helping Hands Organization | Port Townsend, WA | $38,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Healthcare | Port Townsend, WA | $38,098 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Interfaith Action Coalition | Port Townsend, WA | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Olympic Land Trust | Port Angeles, WA | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Society of St Vincent De Paul East Jefferson County Conference | Port Townsend, WA | $30,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Ethical Leadership | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Recyclery of Jefferson County | Port Townsend, WA | $26,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Olympic Salmon Coalition | Port Townsend, WA | $26,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse Mission Ministries | Bellingham, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Radio Port Townsend | Port Townsend, WA | $24,050 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Clemente Foundation | Port Townsend, WA | $23,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building | Port Hadlock, WA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | Evanston, IL | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cedarbrook Early Learning Center | Port Hadlock, WA | $21,430 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Food Bank Farm and Gardens of Jefferson County | Port Townsend, WA | $20,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sunfield Education Association | Port Hadlock, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Weekend Nutrition Program | Quilcene, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Whidbey Institute | Clinton, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equality New Mexico Foundation | Albuquerque, NM | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | Port Townsend, WA | $16,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gatheringplace | Port Hadlock, WA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Olympic Pride | Port Townsend, WA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Outreach Associationshelter Team | Port Hadlock, WA | $15,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $13,650 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Port Townsend Ballet | Port Townsend, WA | $13,132 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cedarroot | Nordland, WA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni | Bellingham, WA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Queets-Clearwater School District 20 | Forks, WA | $10,160 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chimacum School District | Chimacum, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | Port Townsend, WA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Usawa Consulting | Port Townsend, WA | $8,225 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Jefferson County Wa | Port Townsend, WA | $7,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Chimacum Schools | Chimacum, WA | $7,380 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Centrum Foundation | Port Townsend, WA | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indian Tribal Government-Enterprise | Sequim, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jefferson County Library | Port Hadlock, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson County Public Health | Port Townsend, WA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Port Townsend Rotary Charitable Fund | Port Townsend, WA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
48 of 75 (64%) 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.
- Habitat for Humanity
PERMANENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR LOCAL FAMILIES. - Northwind Art
LIGHTING FOR CLASSROOMS AND SUPPORT FOR OPERATIONS - Jefferson Healthcare Foundation
ONCOLOGY LINEAR ACCELERATOR - Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates (jcira)
SUPPORT & EDUCATION FOR IMMIGRANTS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. - Bayside Housing and Services
, TRANSITIONAL HOUSING & SUPPORT THAT LEADS TO JOBS, TRANSITIONAL HOUSING & SUPPORT THAT LEADS TO JOBS & LONG-TERM HOUSING. - St Vincent De Paul
COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE GRANT.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 54 of 75 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 50 | $986,368 | $17,250 |
| 2022 | 37 | $788,684 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 49 | $735,519 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 55 | $1,390,048 | $14,500 |
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
95% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
6 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 15 grants totalling $951,262 to Jefferson Community Foundation. That is 30% of the 20 funders we can see giving to it. Those 6 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
5 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mize Family Foundation | Washington | $714,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| I a O'shaughnessy Foundation | Minnesota | $162,178 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| George & P Ann Fisher Fdn-Ixis | New Jersey | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Entelco Foundation | Washington | $5,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Natembea Foundation | Delaware | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $84 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $13,000 -- 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 Jefferson Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1394, Port Hadlock, WA, 98339.
EIN 84-1682682 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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