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Columbia Basin Foundation
COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION is a community foundation with a collection of permanent charitable funds supported by a wide range of donors for the purpose of strengthening the community for the benefit of all citizens.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $1,375,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,967,778 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $592,538 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $164k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH OF CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $1,126,588 |
| EPHRATA SENIOR CENTER | $25,703 |
| QUINCY BOOSTER CLUB INC | $23,500 |
| GRANT COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT #7 | $15,000 |
| MASQUERS OF GRANT COUNTY | $13,200 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $12,000 |
| SUMMIT CHURCH NW OF SPOKANE | $12,000 |
| EPHRATA CONSOLIDATED FOOD BANK | $11,700 |
| RUN THE DAM | $11,133 |
| SHARP COUNTY COURTHOUSE | $10,000 |
| COULEE CITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $10,000 |
| QUINCY VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| GRANT COUNTY TREASURER | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DBA GRACE POINT CHURCH | $9,547 |
| TOWN OF COULEE CITY MAINTENANCE DEPT | $9,179 |
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 (FY18–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% 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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- NTNCW TECH ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +114% · 85% of their budget
- ESEphrata Senior Center6× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +77%
- CFCAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ASALMIRA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $145k
- MLMOSES LAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +35%
- MTMARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +93%
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.
Foster Growth in the Community
To promote, support and advocate for the chamber's members, strengthen the economic climate of the coeur d'alene area, and further the free enterprise system.
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
The mission and purpose of the skamania county chamber of commerce is to foster development of a healthy economic community through the support and promotion of businesses, chamber members and skamania county, washington as an exceptional…
To advocate for a vibrant regioinal economy and improve the community's quality of life by strengthening our member businesses. the chamber is the major community catalyst and convener, creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and…
The chamber's mission is to engage the business community to enhance a vibrant regional economy by advocating for education, training and workfore development in the clackamas region by becoming a preferred regional resource for services…
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
Columbia basin foundation is a community foundation with a collection of permanent charitable funds supported by a wide range of donors for the purpose of strengthening the community for the benefit of all citizens. the foundation is…
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
To develop, improve, advance and support endeavors of cloud county community college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Ncw and the most unlike its peers is Run the Dam. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 70 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
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 NCW TECH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yakima Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MASQUERS OF GRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Ephrata Senior Center ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds MOSES LAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY EDUCATION FOUND DBA AGFORESTRY LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds COULEE CITY SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds QUINCY VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Royal City Friends of the Library ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN ↗
- Who funds EPHRATA CONSOLIDATED FOOD BANK ↗
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: Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation · North Central Accountable Community of Health · Community Foundation of Ncw · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Icicle Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Columbia Basin 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.
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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