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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. The foundation is committed to: assist donors to create charitable funds and to distribute proceeds therefrom in accordance…
- $909k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $442k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,729
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,119
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Columbia Basin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $402k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $692k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $711k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $292k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $645k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $146k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ncw Tech Alliance | $1,158,250 | 4 | 85% |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | $1,126,588 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Bend Community College Foundation | $517,684 | 7 | 26% |
| Grant County | $476,621 | 5 | n/a |
| City of Quincy | $147,966 | 4 | n/a |
| Almira School District | $145,260 | 1 | n/a |
| Ephrata Senior Center | $90,044 | 7 | 6% |
| Public Hospital District 4 of Grant County | $85,589 | 2 | n/a |
| Masquers of Grant County | $85,424 | 8 | 24% |
| Yakima Symphony Orchestra | $78,961 | 2 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ncw Tech Alliance | $1,158,250 | 4 | 85% |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | $1,126,588 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Bend Community College Foundation | $517,684 | 7 | 26% |
| Grant County | $476,621 | 5 | n/a |
| City of Quincy | $147,966 | 4 | n/a |
| Almira School District | $145,260 | 1 | n/a |
| Ephrata Senior Center | $90,044 | 7 | 6% |
| Public Hospital District 4 of Grant County | $85,589 | 2 | n/a |
| Masquers of Grant County | $85,424 | 8 | 24% |
| Yakima Symphony Orchestra | $78,961 | 2 | 4% |
| City of Coulee City | $78,032 | 7 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church of Ephrata | $70,016 | 7 | n/a |
| Camp Fire Walla Walla | $66,022 | 9 | 3% |
| Grant County Historical Society | $59,384 | 7 | 7% |
| Moses Lake Christian Academy | $51,701 | 1 | 3% |
| South Carolina Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way Fox Cities Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Church of Ephrata | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Montana Chamber Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Marion Technical College Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Riverside County Works | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coulee City Senior Citizens | $44,247 | 7 | 11% |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane | $44,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Spokane III Foursquare Church | $44,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Shiloh Cemetery | $40,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Coulee City Assembly of God | $40,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Washington State University | $40,153 | 3 | n/a |
| Sharp County Courthouse | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Agriculture and Forestry Education Found Dba Agforestry Leadership | $38,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Quincy Booster Club Inc | $36,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Second Harvest Inland Northwest | $31,960 | 2 | 0% |
| Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce | $31,883 | 3 | 5% |
| Royal City Friends of the Library | $29,806 | 1 | n/a |
| Ephrata Consolidated Food Bank | $26,845 | 3 | 23% |
| Grant County Fire District #6 | $24,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation | $24,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Wags N Whiskers | $23,559 | 4 | n/a |
| Wahluke School District | $22,450 | 2 | n/a |
| Fair Chance Learning Inc | $21,470 | 1 | n/a |
| Shoot the Puck Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Columbia Basin | $19,183 | 3 | 1% |
| City of Ephrata | $18,571 | 1 | n/a |
| Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra | $17,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Wenatchee Valley Tread | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Services of Moses Lake | $16,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Run the Dam | $16,477 | 2 | 22% |
| Central Washington University Foundation | $16,295 | 3 | 0% |
| Grant County Fire District #7 | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hopkins County Board of Education | $14,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Douglas Grant Lincoln & Okanogan Counties Public Hospital Dist 6 | $13,295 | 2 | n/a |
| Childrens Home Society of Washington | $13,072 | 1 | 0% |
| Mlchc Community Services | $13,000 | 1 | 10% |
| The Dollywood Foundation | $12,836 | 1 | 0% |
| Moses Lake Community Health Center | $12,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Pybus Market Charitable Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Basin Hospital Foundation | $11,689 | 2 | 27% |
| Coulee-Hartline School District 151 | $10,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Crossroads Resource Center | $10,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Washington State High School Rodeo Assoc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Athletics and Activities | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Central Educational Service District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alatheia Riding Center | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quincy Valley Historical Society& Museum | $9,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Royal School District | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Cloudview | $7,740 | 1 | 8% |
| Samaritan Healthcare Foundation | $6,900 | 1 | 1% |
| Coulee Medical Foundation | $6,552 | 1 | 0% |
| Tierra Village Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Quincy Community Food Bank | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Love in the Name of Christ Columbia Basin | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Wenatchee Valley Senior Activity Center | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quincy Senior Citizens | $5,881 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Soap Lake | $5,650 | 1 | n/a |
| St Rose of Lima Catholic Church | $5,615 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Humane Society | $5,603 | 1 | 0% |
| Ephrata Youth Assets | $5,603 | 1 | n/a |
| St Rose of Lima Catholic School | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Quincy School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ephrata Chamber of Commerce Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Columbia Basin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Columbia Basin Foundation
- How much does Columbia Basin Foundation give?
- Columbia Basin Foundation reported 40 itemized grants totaling $442,417, out of $909,102 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Columbia Basin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Science & Tech (22%), Education (17%).
- Who are Columbia Basin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ncw Tech Alliance ($1.2M), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ($1.1M), Big Bend Community College Foundation ($518k).
- Does Columbia Basin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Columbia Basin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation, North Central Accountable Community of Health, Community Foundation of Ncw.
- Where is Columbia Basin Foundation based?
- Columbia Basin Foundation is based in WA.
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