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Columbia Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES | $50,000 |
| EDUCATE BWINDI | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIED ARTS | $15,000 |
| BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT | $12,000 |
| SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EMERSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS & CULTURE | $10,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF WOODLAND | $5,000 |
| MOSES LAKE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MOSES LAKE SISTER CITY EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| CITY OF MOSES LAKE | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW CAMPBELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +184%
- EBEDUCATE BWINDI6× · 2019–2024 · $131k · revenue +36%
- NCNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- QVQUINCY VALLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -95%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
- MOMASQUERS OF GRANT COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +103%
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.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
To promote an arts-rich enviroment in the Columbia Gorge, in which novices as well as well-established artists and performers discover and develop their full creative potential.
Skagit Symphony's mission is to present exceptional orchestral experiences to a growing and inclusive audience; to enrich, entertain, educate, and inspire our community through music.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
The mission and purpose of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF) is to promote excellence in the performance of chamber music throughout the greater Walla Walla Valley area, to embody these qualities as members of a greater…
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
The Walla Walla Symphony delights and challenges our community by providing live orchestral performances and opportunities for leaning about music.
The wcc foundation strengthens educational opportunities by providing student scholarships, supporting faculty and staff development, and assisting with key college initiatives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Central Basin Community Concert Associat. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE BWINDI ↗
- Who funds North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN ALLIED ARTS ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rotary Foundation of Woodland ↗
- Who funds EMERSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds Community Athletics and Activities ↗
- Who funds Multnomah Arts Center Association ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds MASQUERS OF GRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds QUINCY VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY& MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Central Basin Community Concert Associat ↗
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 · Greater Horizons · Seattle Foundation · Icicle Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Family 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.
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
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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