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3 Rivers Community Foundation

To create opportunities for perpetual giving in benton and franklin counites to support nonprofits now, and in the future.

$707k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$920kHuman Services$907kHousing & Shelter$699kEducation$247kArts & Culture$215kCrime & Legal$214kFood & Nutrition$176kReligion$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $502,351, the rows itemized in this filing. The $707,206 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $204,855 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $325k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN - TRI CITIES$44,964
GRACE CLINIC$32,670
GENERATIONAL CARE$31,293
TRI-CITIES CHAPLAINCY$18,099
COLUMBIA BASIN VETERANS CENTER$18,000
CENTER FOR SHARING$16,783
HEARTLINKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CAR$15,444
SAFE HARBOR SUPPORT CENTER$15,249
NEW HOPE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH$14,000
SUPPORT ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER$13,811
TRI-CITIES CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION$11,311
THE CHILDREN'S READING FOUNDATION O$11,311
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER$11,195
KENNEWICK POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDAT$11,000
STOCK FARM GREATER RAVALLI FOUNDATI$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY ACTION CONNECTIONS: $78k → 11%HEARTLINKS HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CAR: $15k → 17%HEARTLINKS HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $15k → 17%Heartlinks Hospice Care: $15k → 17%Union Gospel Mission: $30k → 11%PARTNERS FOR EARLY LEARNING: $11k → 11%CENTER FOR SHARING: $17k → 11%B5 Learning Center: $11k → 11%B5: $9k → 11%Union Gospel Mission: $11k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION CONNECTIONS: $10k → 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST PATRICKS C: $9k → 11%CHAPLAINCY HEALTH CARE: $99k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES: $112k → 11%THE CHAPLAINCY: $91k → 11%SAFE HARBOR SUPPORT CENTER: $64k → 11%Tri-Cities Chaplaincy: $67k → 11%CHAPLAINCY HEALTH CARE: $44k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $25k → 11%GENERATIONAL CARE: $31k → 11%Safe Harbor Support Center: $20k → 11%YMCA: $25k → 11%Safe Harbor Support Center: $16k → 11%SAFE HARBOR SUPPORT CENTER: $16k → 11%MIRROR MINISTRIES: $19k → 11%TRI-CITIES CHAPLAINCY: $18k → 11%SAFE HARBOR SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 11%Meals on Wheels: $18k → 11%Tri-Cities Chaplaincy: $15k → 11%The Chaplaincy: $14k → 11%Senior Life Resources NW: $13k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES: $11k → 11%YMCA Greater Tri-Cities: $12k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TRI-CITIES: $11k → 11%SENIOR LIFE RESOURCES: $10k → 11%Meals on Wheels: $10k → 11%YMCA Greater Tri-Cities: $10k → 11%Domestic Violence Services: $10k → 11%Lutheran Comm Services NW: $10k → 11%Domestic Violence Services: $9k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TRI-CITIES: $10k → 11%MIRROR MINISTRIES: $9k → 11%FAMILY LEARNING CENTER: $8k → 11%Mirror Ministries: $9k → 11%Lutheran Comm Services NW: $8k → 11%YMCA Greater Tri-Cities: $8k → 11%Spectrum Studios: $8k → 11%SENIOR LIFE RESOURCES: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of 3 Rivers Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 91%.

3 Rivers Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 56 repeat orgs$753k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
36

Total granted

$3.6M
$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+41%

Still filing today

84%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    Tri-Cities Chaplaincy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA
    6× · 2019–2025 · $206k · revenue +70%
  • GC
    GRACE CLINIC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $201k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MB
    Mid-Columbia Balletgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $102k · revenue +36% · 33% of their budget
  • AC
    Arts Center Task Forcegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +60% · 44% of their budget
  • SH
    SOUTH HILLS CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Columbia Wellness

CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.

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2
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services
3
Refugee Care Collective Northwest

Provide care to refugee families.

Human Services
4
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
5
Arc of Washington Co Inc

To create partnerships that foster nurturing communities where people with disabilities can live their vision of valued life.

Human Services
6
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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7
Tri-City Development Council Inc

It is the mission of TRIDEC to improve the economic health of the Tri-Cities area.To achieve this mission, TRIDEC promotes economic diversification, facilitates job creation and retention, pursues new federal missions to support stability…

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8
South Coast Business Employment Corporation

Scbec builds capacity and ensures the long-term success of skilled employees, well run businesses, organizations, and life enriching senior nutrition and social/health activities, and public transportation services on the southern oregon…

Employment
9
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital

Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…

Health
10
Columbia River Mental Health Services

Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.

Health
11
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council

The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.

Community Improvement
12
Chelan Valley Hope

Chelan Valley Hope is a gross-roots local social services agency 'hub' for compassionate connections and resources since 2009. We empower people to improve their own lives by giving them a hand up; not just a hand-out. We do this by…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Services of Benton & Franklin Counties; the most unlike its peers is Pasco Police Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/86
Grantees still filing
53/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA: $205,651 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMACOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $195,812 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $169,572 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERS: $118,020 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-CO…Mid-Columbia Ballet: $102,445 · OtherMid-Columbia BalletTHE KENNEWICK POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $58,025 · OtherELIJAH FAMILY HOMES: $67,890 · OtherCBVC INC: $62,000 · Other+51 more: $753,622 · Other+51 moreTri-Cities Chaplaincy: $362,756 · Human ServicesTri-Cities ChaplaincyDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $163,778 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF B…SAFE HARBOR CRISIS NURSERY: $135,966 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR CRISIS NURSERYSENIOR LIFE RESOURCES NORTHWEST: $89,499 · Human ServicesSENIOR LIFE RESOURCES NORTHWESTBENTON-FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITT: $88,271 · Human ServicesBENTON-FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ACTIO…YMCA OF THE GREATER TRI-CITIES: $85,520 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE GREATER TRI-CITIESLutheran Community Services Northwest: $52,690 · Human ServicesHEARTLINKS: $50,594 · Human ServicesMirror Ministries: $44,493 · Human ServicesTRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $41,095 · Human Services+7 more: $98,318 · Human Services+7 moreGRACE CLINIC: $200,840 · HealthGRACE CLINICSUPPORT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $163,730 · HealthSUPPORT ADVOCACY …TRI-CITIES PREGNANCY NETWORK: $70,905 · HealthTRI-CITIES PREGNA…TRI-CITIES CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $54,653 · HealthTRI-CITIES CANCER…BENTON FRANKLIN RECOVERY COALITION: $41,000 · HealthBENTON FRANKLIN R…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $39,850 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 · HealthTHERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TRI-CITIES: $27,000 · Health+4 more: $47,069 · Health+4 moreCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $138,591 · EducationTHE READING FOUNDATION CRF OF THE: $63,228 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,730 · EducationCOLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTOCK FARM GREATER RAVALLI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $20,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $120,393 · Youth DevelopmentAcademic Link Outreach NFP: $76,554 · Youth DevelopmentBig Bro Joe Foundation: $8,310 · Youth DevelopmentArts Center Task Force: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMID-COLUMBIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMID-COLUMBIA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $17,933 · Arts & CultureALLIED ARTS ASSOCIATION: $6,250 · Arts & CultureTHREE RIVERS CAROUSEL FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Childrens Theatre: $5,095 · Arts & CultureTHE KNIGHTS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT LEND PROGRAM SERVICES: $69,000 · Community ImprovementHISTORIC DOWNTOWN KENNEWICK PARTNERS: $15,383 · Community ImprovementRESTORATION COMMUNITY IMPACT: $11,800 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN PASCO DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCivil Survival Project: $6,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,733,037Human Services$1,212,980Health$675,047Education$273,049Youth Development$205,257Arts & Culture$134,778Community Improvement$112,683

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTri-Cities Chaplaincy: $362,756 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA: $205,651 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGRACE CLINIC: $200,840 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $163,778 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSUPPORT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $163,730 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $138,591 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS NURSERY: $135,966 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BENTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $120,393 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERS: $118,020 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMid-Columbia Ballet: $102,445 over 1y, 33% of budgetSENIOR LIFE RESOURCES NORTHWEST: $89,499 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBENTON-FRANKLIN COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITT: $88,271 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYMCA OF THE GREATER TRI-CITIES: $85,520 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAcademic Link Outreach NFP: $76,554 over 4y, 26% of budgetArts Center Task Force: $75,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTRI-CITIES PREGNANCY NETWORK: $70,905 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE KNIGHTS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT LEND PROGRAM SERVICES: $69,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetELIJAH FAMILY HOMES: $67,890 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTHE READING FOUNDATION CRF OF THE: $63,228 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCBVC INC: $62,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE KENNEWICK POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $58,025 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetTRI-CITIES CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $54,653 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $52,690 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLINKS: $50,594 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $48,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Helping Women Fund: $44,964 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMirror Ministries: $44,493 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $41,095 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBENTON FRANKLIN RECOVERY COALITION: $41,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $39,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF TRI-CITIES: $38,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBENTON FRANKLIN LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $32,775 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,730 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TRI-CITIES: $27,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetMID-COLUMBIA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKADLEC FOUNDATION: $20,215 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetB5 LEARNING CENTER: $20,175 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-CITIES FOOD BANK: $18,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASTER GARDENER FOUNDATION OF BENTON-FRANKLIN COUNTY: $18,250 over 3y, 30% of budgetMID-COLUMBIA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $17,933 over 1y, 14% of budgetPet Over Population Prevention: $17,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRebuilding Mid-Columbia: $17,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT de PAUL ST PATRICK CONFERENCE: $15,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHISTORIC DOWNTOWN KENNEWICK PARTNERS: $15,383 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON: $15,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Benton & Franklin CountiesWA82.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Women Helping Women Fund Tri-Cities · Numerica Credit Union · Columbus Foundation · School's Out Washington · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · Hazel Hodgson Charitable Foundation · Kadlec Regional Medical Center · Artsfund · The Donald G Currie Foundation · Hapo Community Credit Union

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 3 Rivers Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 3 Rivers Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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