How much did COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION reported 25 grants totaling $1,967,778 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION based?

COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION is based in WA.

COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

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.

$2.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.1M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

maintain cemeteryscholarshipschelan douglasdouglas okanoganstatuebudgetscholarship

2019

cancermicrosoft smokingsmoking cessationcessation distributionmoses lakeimprovementshomeless

2020

chromebookscovid relieftraffic safetyhomelessephratafoodtask force

2021

traffic safetyephrataoutreachmaintaineducationquincysenior

2022

ncw techtech bringbring technologytechnology togethertogether thrivingchelan douglasdouglas okanogan

2023

clothingbeautificationdistricteducationcouleechurchquincy

2024

clothingncweducationcouleechurch

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $84k
$10k–50k12 grants · $164k
$250k+1 grant · $1.1M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
GRANT COUNTY TREASURER$10,000
SHARP COUNTY COURTHOUSE$10,000
QUINCY VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
COULEE CITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD$10,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DBA GRACE POINT CHURCH$9,547
TOWN OF COULEE CITY MAINTENANCE DEPT$9,179

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 30 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$836k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+64%

Still filing today

50%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NT
NCW TECH ALLIANCE
4× · 2021–2024 · $908k · revenue +834% · 58% of their budget
BB
BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
6× · 2018–2024 · $502k · revenue +44% · 26% of their budget
MO
MASQUERS OF GRANT COUNTY
7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +73%

Funded once

AS
ALMIRA SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2023 · $145k
ML
MOSES LAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
one grant, 2023 · $52k · revenue +4%
TC
THE CHAMBER FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +679%

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

04Your field

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.

Coeur Dalene Chamber of Commerce

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.

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Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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Skamania County Chamber of Commerce

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…

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Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.

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Chamber of Commerce of Columbia Cou

To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.

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Community Foundation for Sw Washington

The foundation is a charitable granting organization whose mission is to inspire a culture of giving to create a vibrant and engaged community.

Philanthropy

Washington County Chamber of

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…

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Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement

Canby Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve and support our membership through advocacy, education, transparent leadership, and passion for the growth of business in and around canby, oregon.

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Community Foundation of Snohomish County

To strengthen communities in greater everett and snohomish county.

Philanthropy

Crooked River Watershed Council

To promote stewardship of the Crooked River Watershed and its resources and to ensure sustainable watershed health, functions, and uses for optimal conservation and benefit

Environment

Cloud County Community College

To develop, improve, advance and support endeavors of cloud county community college.

Education

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.

Your grantees are a median of 41 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/67

the rest of the field

347/4,024

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/37

Grantees still filing

30/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,148,147Science & Tech$908,250Education$663,972Human Services$102,699Arts & Culture$78,961Youth Development$77,480Philanthropy$61,176

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.

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.

Paul Lauzier Charitable FoundationWA24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Ncw · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · North Central Accountable Community Of · Innovia Foundation · Icicle Fund · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · Seattle Foundation · United Way Worldwide · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NCW TECH ALLIANCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 9.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 912112603 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NCW TECH ALLIANCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Columbia Basin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Columbia Basin Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Columbia Basin Foundation?

More from the funding graph

COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Columbia Basin Foundation?

More from the funding graph