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Colf Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$403kArts & Culture$278kEducation$222kHealth$105kReligion$74kEnvironment$47kPhilanthropy$38kCommunity Improvement$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$9,661
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH$14,500
LA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM$12,500
NORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM$10,000
WOODLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,661
COPPER MOUNTAIN COLLEGE$5,000
NORTH CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK$5,000
WHITE PASS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
CLARK CO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY$2,000
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS$2,000
LA CENTER MUSIC ASSOCIATION$250
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%COPPER MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $5k → 14%MADONNA UNIVERSITY: $8k → 21%LEWIS & CLARK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%MT ST HELENS INSTITUTE: $30k → 9%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%WHITE PASS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 12%DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 12%COWLITZ COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 13%MADONNA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 21%NORTH COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10k → 9%LEGACY HEALTH CANCER INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%NORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10k → 9%LEGACY SALMON CREEK HOSPITAL: $15k → 12%NORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $6k → 9%SALMON CREEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - LEGACY HEALTH: $5k → 12%NORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 9%NORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 9%WOODLAND ROTARY: $142k → 13%NORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 9%ROTARY FOUNDATION OF WOODLAND: $31k → 13%ROTARY CLUB OF WOODLAND: $20k → 13%ROTARY CLUB OF WOODLAND: $20k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $16k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $15k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $14k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $13k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $12k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $11k → 13%WOODLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY: $10k → 13%WOODLAND ROTARY: $10k → 13%ROTARY FOUNDATION OF WOODLAND: $8k → 13%GREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $7k → 13%WOODLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY: $6k → 13%ROTARY CLUB OF WOODLAND: $6k → 13%WOODLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY: $6k → 13%LA CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%LA CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38k → 9%LA CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%LA CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%LA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $13k → 9%LA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10k → 9%LA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10k → 9%LA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10k → 9%CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $20k → 9%CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $15k → 9%CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $13k → 9%DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Colf Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Colf Family Foundationlessmore 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
22

Total granted

$1.1M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+35%

Still filing today

43%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
EducationFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +80%
  • COLUMBIA LAND TRUST
    5× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue +40%
  • MU
    Madonna University
    3× · 2018–2020 · $17k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • PH
    PEACE HEALTH SW WA MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • MS
    MOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • LH
    LEGACY HEALTH CANCER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Clallam County Geneological Society

Edicational, genealogical library and research facility

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2
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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3
Northland College

Northland college's mission is to integrate undergraduate liberal arts studies with an environmental emphasis, enabling those it serves to address the challenges of the future.

Education
4
Waitsburg High School Alumni Association
Education
5
North Mason Scholarship Foundation

The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, the corporation is organized to raise and distribute funds for scholarships to support further…

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6
Northwest Conference

Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.

Recreation & Sports
7
Shields Valley Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Wa High School Equestrian Teams
Recreation & Sports
9
Maryhill Museum of Art

Maryhill Museum of Art ignites a journey of educational enrichment in the Columbia River Gorge by preserving and interpreting art and historic collections.

Arts & Culture
10
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
11
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
12
Mcgraft Park Trust Nect Uw
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is La Center Educational 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

16 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. 16 of the 51 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WSU FOUNDATION: $205,000 · OtherWSU FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $156,736 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $89,500 · OtherGREEN MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCHLA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $63,965 · OtherLA CENTER HISTORICAL MUSEUMCLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $56,850 · OtherCLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUMPEACE HEALTH SW WA MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF WOODLAND: $45,500 · OtherWOODLAND HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY: $41,100 · OtherNORTH CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $35,500 · Other+29 more: $174,000 · Other+29 moreLA CENTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $233,000 · EducationLA CENTER EDUCATIONAL…Madonna University: $16,700 · EducationMadonna University+2 more: $8,000 · EducationMOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE: $30,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $17,000 · EnvironmentRotary Foundation of Woodland: $38,000 · PhilanthropyDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $19,000 · HealthPeaceHealth: $10,000 · HealthNorth County Community Food Bank: $10,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER: $2,500 · Food & NutritionLelooska Foundation: $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$968,151Education$257,700Environment$47,000Philanthropy$38,000Health$29,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Arts & Culture$6,500

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 budgetLA CENTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $233,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetRotary Foundation of Woodland: $38,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCLARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $24,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMadonna University: $16,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County Community Food Bank: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPeaceHealth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLelooska Foundation: $6,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWHITE PASS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN PROJECT FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER: $2,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 LA CENTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rotary Foundation of Woodland ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Madonna University ↗
  • Who funds North County Community Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds PeaceHealth ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CLARK HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Lelooska Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WHITE PASS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN PROJECT FUND ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER ↗

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 Oregon Community …Mightycause Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Colf Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colf Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 51 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-PF 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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