Skip to content

· Public charity

Clark County Food Bank

CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK's mission is to "alleviate hunger and its root causes." this two-part mission statement includes both the providing of emergency food to hungry individuals and families, and also the preventive element of doing everything we can to help people not be in a long-term place of needing food assistance.

$9.9M
Granted FY2021
19
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$7k
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, FY2020 to 2021.

Food & Nutrition$112k
02FY2021 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $64,341, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,896,730 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,832,389 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.
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL USA$7,021
HEALTHY EQUITABLE LIVING PROJECT (HELP)$5,000
HIGHLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH DBA LEWIS R$5,000
FISH OF ORCHARDS INC$4,255
NORTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$3,955
FISH OF VANCOUVER$3,800
INTER-FAITH TREASURE HOUSE$3,750
AMBOY FOOD BANK$3,500
ONE LIFE$3,500
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS$3,500
BATTLE GROUND ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES$3,500
ANGELS OF GOD$2,500
SALVATION ARMY WASHOUGAL$2,500
SIXEIGHT FOOD PANTRY$2,500
MARTHA'S PANTRY$2,500
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 (FY20–21, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTER-FAITH TREASURE HOUSE: $4k → 9%INTER-FAITH TREASURE HOUSE: $3k → 9%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $3k → 13%WOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $60 → 13%ONE LIFE: $4k → 9%SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL USA: $7k → 9%SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL USA: $7k → 9%ONE LIFE: $4k → 9%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 95% of Clark County Food Bank’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 8%.

Clark County Food Banklessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 16 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$103k
$397

Still filing today

38%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +54%
  • OL
    ONE LIFE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +63%
  • FO
    FISH OF VANCOUVER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +332%

Funded once

  • NB
    NORTHWEST BAPTIST CONVENTION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $397
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
Clackamas Service Center

Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.

Human Services
2
Lake Chelan Food Bank

The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.

Food & Nutrition
3
Clatsop Community Action

Clatsop community action, inc. (cca) is an oregon nonprofit corporation whose mission is to assist low-income individuals and families meet housing, energy, food and other basic living needs in the clatsop county area of oregon. cca…

—
4
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
5
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
6
Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc

Provide food to low income families.

—
7
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
8
Lake County Food Share Inc

Lake county food share inc is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate and to meet both supplemental and emergency food needs of families and individuals in lake county, oregon.

Food & Nutrition
9
Mid-Columbia Community Action Council

To alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in Wasco, Hood River, and Sherman Counties. The purpose of MCCAC shall be the promotion of self sufficiency in families and individuals within the low income economic ranges in the three…

—
10
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
11
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
12
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington; the most unlike its peers is North County Community Food Bank. 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

37 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST: $7,700 · OtherGENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTHIGHLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH DBA LEWIS R: $7,414 · OtherHIGHLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH DBA LEWIS RMARTHAS PANTRY: $6,212 · OtherMARTHAS PANTRYNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS: $5,763 · OtherNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORSAMBOY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $5,615 · OtherAMBOY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEOREGON CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS: $5,500 · OtherOREGON CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTSEAST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5,082 · OtherEAST VANCOUVER COMMUNITY CHURCHPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $5,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USASIXEIGHT CHURCH: $3,500 · OtherANGELS OF GOD: $3,500 · Other+1 more: $397 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $13,775 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY O…ONE LIFE: $7,688 · Human ServicesONE LIFEInter-Faith Treasure House: $6,750 · Human ServicesInter-Faith Treasure HouseFISH OF VANCOUVER: $4,800 · Human ServicesFISH OF VANCOUVERWOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $3,060 · Human ServicesWOODLAND ACTION CENTERF I S H Of Orchards Inc: $6,255 · Food & NutritionF I S H Of…North County Community Food Bank: $3,955 · Food & NutritionNorth Coun…
Other$65,683Human Services$36,073Food & Nutrition$10,210

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $13,775 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONE LIFE: $7,688 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetInter-Faith Treasure House: $6,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetF I S H Of Orchards Inc: $6,255 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFISH OF VANCOUVER: $4,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNorth County Community Food Bank: $3,955 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $3,060 over 6y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Inter-Faith Treasure House ↗
  • Who funds F I S H Of Orchards Inc ↗
  • Who funds FISH OF VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds North County Community Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND ACTION CENTER ↗

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.

The Firstenburg FoundationWA40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Firstenburg Foundation · PeaceHealth · Northwest Harvest Emm · Southwest Washington Regional Health Alliance · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Beaches Summertime Cruisin' · Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab · Kmr Group Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Tod and Maxine McClaskey Family Foundation · The Swigert Foundation

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 Clark County Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clark County Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $18M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Clark County Food Bank’s filings →

    More from the funding graph