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Blue Mountain Community Foundation
The mission of BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to be the catalyst that transforms the blue mountain region by growing generosity and connecting people, charitable causes, and community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 121 grants below total $5,526,254 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,006,628 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,480,374 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $216k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN AID CENTER | $501,340 |
| YWCA | $301,944 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST | $279,903 |
| PROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION | $278,428 |
| WALLA WALLA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $226,894 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $201,569 |
| WALLA WALLA SYMPHONY | $173,958 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $165,828 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL (BMAC) | $156,765 |
| VITAL WINES | $152,148 |
| FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM | $137,297 |
| VALLEY ADVENTIST SCHOOLS | $129,616 |
| DAYTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $120,680 |
| YMCA | $120,659 |
| LIBERTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $108,166 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +76%
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +153%
- WWWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +209%
Funded once
- WWWALLA WALLA PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $113k · revenue -73% · 58% of their budget
- COCITY OF POMEROYone grant, 2021 · $101k
- CPCOLUMBIA-BURBANK PARENT TEACHER ORG PTO BOOSTERS-YOUTH ACTIVITIESone grant, 2021 · $98k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
Preservation of history in Whitman County
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.
Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.
WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla and the most unlike its peers is Doughty Home for Veteran Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 217 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA YMCA ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ELEMENTARY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds STUDENT HEALTH OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds PLUS DELTA AFTER SCHOOL STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds POWER HOUSE THEATRE WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds Helpline ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VITAL WINES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TOUCHET VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Little Theatre of Walla Walla ↗
- Who funds Trilogy Recovery Community ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds ATHENAS GEM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Picture Lab ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sherwood Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health · Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736 · Providence Health & Services - Washington
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Blue Mountain Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pendleton Childrens Center — 100% of income from government
- Pioneer Relief Nursery Pioneer Relief Nursery — 87% of income from government
- Horizon Project Inc — 84% of income from government
- Umatilla-Morrow Headstart Inc — 44% of income from government
- Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance — 13% of income from government
- The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc — 6% of income from government
- Walla Walla Basin Watershed Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Blue Mountain Wildlife — 1% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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