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Columbia Community Credit Union

Bringing people together to make life better for themselves and their communities.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$456kHealth$376kCommunity Improvement$356kArts & Culture$210kYouth Development$206kHousing & Shelter$133kEnvironment$122kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $192,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,208 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,683 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $171k
$11,650
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SW WASHINGTON$25,000
SHARE$17,500
CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK$15,350
COLUMBIA SPRINGS ENVIRONMENTAL$15,000
CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK$15,000
STRIVE NORTHWEST$15,000
FORT VANC REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION$15,000
GREATER VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$11,650
BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION$11,025
SALMON CREEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES$10,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
THE HISTORIC TRUST$9,000
ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON BUSINESS$7,000
CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC UTILITY$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST GROWTH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES CHARITIES: $10k → 12%FIRST GROWTH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES CHARITIES: $10k → 12%FIRST GROWTH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES CHARITIES: $10k → 12%YWCA OF CLARK COUNTY: $10k → 9%YWCA OF CLARK COUNTY: $8k → 9%YWCA OF CLARK COUNTY: $8k → 9%CLARK COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%CLARK COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $10k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $8k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $6k → 9%NW ASSOCATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $6k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 36 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
9

Total granted

$2.1M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+84%

Still filing today

89%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +83%
  • CC
    CLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +143%
  • SN
    STRIVE NORTHWEST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • WF
    WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -46%
  • FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +132%

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.

1
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
2
Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce

Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.

—
3
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

—
4
Columbia Valley Community Health

The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.

Health
5
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
6
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
7
Bike Clark County

Through community partnerships and the effort of volunteers, we promote bicycle access, education, safety and the enjoyment of cycling to the children and adults of SW Washington. In simple terms, that translates to getting more people out…

Recreation & Sports
8
Central Washington Health Services Association

Local care by and for our community.

Health
9
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

—
10
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment
11
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.

—
12
Highline Medical Center Foundation

Highline Medical Center Foundation brings our community together to support exceptional health care, close to home, for all who need it. Thanks to the generosity of our caring neighbors and friends, we help ensure that St Anne Hospital has…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Sw Washington and the most unlike its peers is Ridgefield Public Schools Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ProgramsIndustry Trade AssociationsPacific Northwest Conservat…Community Health CentersCompanion Animal Rescue & C…Civic Engagement & AdvocacyPrivate Recreation & Athlet…Hospital Systems and Founda…Affordable Housing OperatorsFood Access & Poverty ReliefChild-Focused Support Servi…Youth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr14%19%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
13%
919/6,896

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHARE — $103,250 · OtherSHARECOLUMBIA RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $81,500 · OtherCOLUMBIA RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCILVancouver Public School District — $80,000 · OtherVancouver Public School DistrictBuilding Industry Association of Clark County — $67,925 · OtherBuilding Industry Association of Clark CountyGREATER VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $60,189 · OtherCOLUMBIA SPRINGS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $49,900 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $40,350 · OtherCOMMUNITY MILITARY APPRECIATION COMMITTEE - CMAC — $49,900 · OtherRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $45,400 · OtherCOLUMBIA SPRINGS — $66,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA SPRINGSIDENTITY CLARK COUNTY — $52,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $50,000 · Other+20 more — $384,367 · Other+20 moreCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION — $119,500 · EducationCLARK COLLEGE DIST…FORT VANCOUVER REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $102,500 · EducationFORT VANCOUVER REG…VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationVANCOUVER SCHOOL D…Evergreen School District Foundation 114 — $52,250 · EducationEvergreen School D…RIDGEFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $30,450 · EducationRIDGEFIELD PUBLIC …+2 more — $16,000 · EducationSALMON CREEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $93,100 · HealthSALMON CR…American Heart Association Inc — $70,000 · HealthAmerican …PEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $30,800 · HealthPEACEHEAL…FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $10,000 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $196,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE TRUST — $172,700 · Arts & CultureCommunity Foundation for SW Washington — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBridgeview Housing — $23,333 · PhilanthropySTRIVE NORTHWEST — $115,000 · Employment
Other$1,131,281Education$375,700Health$203,900Youth Development$196,000Arts & Culture$172,700Philanthropy$123,333Employment$115,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $196,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE TRUST — $172,700 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION — $119,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTRIVE NORTHWEST — $115,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE — $103,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFORT VANCOUVER REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Foundation for SW Washington — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSALMON CREEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $93,100 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $81,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Industry Association of Clark County — $67,925 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA SPRINGS — $66,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $60,189 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIDENTITY CLARK COUNTY — $52,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetEvergreen School District Foundation 114 — $52,250 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MILITARY APPRECIATION COMMITTEE - CMAC — $49,900 over 6y, 28% of budgetRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $45,400 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $40,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $37,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $35,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOME WITH HEROES — $32,600 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetRIDGEFIELD MAIN STREET — $31,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $30,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST GROWTH CHILDREN & FAMILY CHARITIES DBA CLASSIC WINES FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $27,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP CLARK COUNTY — $26,164 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBridgeview Housing — $23,333 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER — $17,355 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON BUSINESS — $12,653 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $12,270 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The Firstenburg Found…The Honorable Frank L…Onpoint Community Cre…Anna C Macaskill Schw…The Oregon Community …Umpqua Bank Charitabl…M J Murdock Charitabl…Southwest Washington …Marie Lamfrom Charita…Beaches Summertime Cr…PeaceHealthNorman C Danielson Fo…
The Firstenburg FoundationWA38.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Firstenburg Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab · The Oregon Community Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Southwest Washington Regional Health Alliance · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Beaches Summertime Cruisin' · PeaceHealth · Norman C Danielson Foundation Co Riverview

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 Community Credit Union 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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