The West Marin Fund
Point Reyes Station, CA · EIN 27-4102086. Reported 103 grants totalling $3,583,922 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 The West Marin Fund, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 14% 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. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $457,500. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolinas Community Land Trust Inc | Bolinas, CA | $511,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Point Reyes National Seashore Association | Point Reyes Station, CA | $388,628 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Extrafood Org | Kentfield, CA | $293,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | Point Reyes Station, CA | $201,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| West Marin Community Services | Point Reyes Station, CA | $190,972 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Huukuiko Inc | Brisbane, CA | $160,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 10000 Degrees | San Rafael, CA | $157,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| West Marin Scholarship Program | Inverness, CA | $152,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Petaluma Health Center | Petaluma, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Innovative Health Solutions | Benicia, CA | $122,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Marin Promise Partnership | San Rafael, CA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Land Trust Association of West Marin | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $113,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Papermill Creek Childrens Corner | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $113,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Shoreline Unified School District | Tomales, CA | $105,945 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Parent Services Project Inc | San Rafael, CA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Commonweal | Bolinas, CA | $85,716 | 9 | 3 | 2023 |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory | Petaluma, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | $47,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bolinas Community Inc | Bolinas, CA | $43,500 | 5 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mesa Refuge | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Marin County Free Library | San Rafael, CA | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Halleck Creek Ranch | Nicasio, CA | $34,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gallery Route One | Point Reyes Statio, CA | $34,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Audubon Canyon Ranch Inc | Stinson Beach, CA | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dance Palace | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $30,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| River Otter Ecology Project | Forest Knolls, CA | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Two Valleys Community Land Trust | Woodacre, CA | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bolinas-Stinson Beach School Foundation | Bolinas, CA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Environmental Action Committee of West Marin | Point Reyes Station, CA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bolinas Museum | Bolinas, CA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kwmr | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $20,782 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| California Council on Science and Technology | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| West Marin Senior Services | Pt Reyes Sta, CA | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| San Geronimo Valley Community Center | San Geronimo, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Farallones Association | San Francisco, CA | $14,973 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Youth Cooking Services | Larkspur, CA | $13,906 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid of Marin | San Rafael, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nicasio School Foundation | Nicasio, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | Point Reyes Station, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Marin Field Committee | Point Reyes Station, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | Tomales, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Columbas Episcopal Church | Inverness, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
30 of 42 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- Bolinas Community Land Trust
GRANT ID # 3872: EMERGENCY HOUSING ON TACHERRA RANCH; GRANT ID # 3904: EMERGENCY HOUSING ON TACHERRA RANCH; GRANT ID # 4135: EMERGENCY HOUSING ON TACHERRA RANCH; GRANT ID # 4169: DEIJ FACILITATION FUNDS; GRANT ID # 4572: WEST MARIN HOUSING COLLABORATIVE JOINT AFFORDABLE HOUSING STRATEGY - Prnsa-Point Reyes National Seashore Association
GRANT ID # 3805: GENERAL SUPPORT; GRANT ID # 4174: MAPPING A PARK FOR ALL, BUILDING DEIJ STRENGTH AT PRNSA; GRANT ID # 4436: 2024 GIVING THROUGH YOUTH GRANT; GRANT ID # 4570: WEST MARIN ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING ALLIANCE - Huukuiko Inc
GRANT ID# 3706: PURCHASE OF LAND IN NICASIO, CA - Petaluma Health Center
GRANT ID # 4569: MULTIDISCIPLINARY HOLISTIC MOBILE HEALTH IN WEST MARIN - Marin Promise Partnership
GRANT ID# 3277: MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP GRANT DISTRIBUTION - Extrafoodorg
GRANT ID # 4104: GENERAL SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 42 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 | 37 | $957,429 | $12,000 |
| 2022 | 34 | $994,871 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $1,631,622 | $16,000 |
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
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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 $12,000 -- 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 California.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The West Marin Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1496, Point Reyes Station, CA, 94956.
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