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Columbia Gorge Health Council

Our COLUMBIA GORGE HEALTH COUNCIL addresses barriers to health and well-being in the columbia gorge. We do this by working with partners to bring forth solutions that are driven by the community. We lift patient and provider voices. We bring partners together, invest funds, and support collective efforts to improve: health quality access…

$2.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Itemized grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
34%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$2.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$96,168
Largest grant, FY2024
$715,168
Organizations funded a year
10 to 29
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$6.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Columbia Gorge Health Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $697k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$2.9M16%
FY202329$3.9M34%
FY202223$2.9M61%
FY202110$367k60%
FY202029$2.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$11MCommunity Improvement$465kHuman Services$379kFood & Nutrition$317kRecreation & Sports$291kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$70kPublic Benefit$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
One Community Health$2,811,56743%
Mid-Columbia Medical Center$2,042,13151%
North Central Public Health District$682,3705n/a
Mid-Columbia Community Action Council$365,00023%
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$308,901320%
The Next Door Inc$289,47951%
Gorge Grown Food Network$169,761216%
United Way of the Columbia Gorge$100,030123%
Columbia Cascade Housing Corp$100,00011%
Mid-Columbia Health Foundation$75,00014%
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All grantees of Columbia Gorge Health Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
One Community Health$2,811,56743%
Mid-Columbia Medical Center$2,042,13151%
North Central Public Health District$682,3705n/a
Mid-Columbia Community Action Council$365,00023%
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$308,901320%
The Next Door Inc$289,47951%
Gorge Grown Food Network$169,761216%
United Way of the Columbia Gorge$100,030123%
Columbia Cascade Housing Corp$100,00011%
Mid-Columbia Health Foundation$75,00014%
Oregon Food Bank$75,00010%
Papalaxsimisha Inc$70,0001n/a
Better Together Central Oregon$69,40012%
South Wasco Alliance$60,000167%
Community Enrichment for Klickitat County$40,350220%
Playworks Education Energized$37,50010%
Hood River Senior Citizens Inc$35,00026%
Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center$22,50015%
FISH Food Bank$22,50015%
Wylde Wind & Water$20,000113%
Healthy Community Collective$10,0001n/a
Gorge Recovery Center$6,0001n/a

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Columbia Gorge Health Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOne Community Health: $2,811,567 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMid-Columbia Medical Center: $2,042,131 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMid-Columbia Community Action Council: $365,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetProvidence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $308,901 over 3y, 20% of budgetThe Next Door Inc: $289,479 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGorge Grown Food Network: $169,761 over 2y, 16% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia Gorge: $100,030 over 1y, 23% of budgetColumbia Cascade Housing Corp: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMid-Columbia Health Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBetter Together Central Oregon: $69,400 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSouth Wasco Alliance: $60,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetCommunity Enrichment for Klickitat County: $40,350 over 2y, 20% of budgetPlayworks Education Energized: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHood River Senior Citizens Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetColumbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center: $22,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFISH Food Bank: $22,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWylde Wind & Water: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

The Ford Family FoundationOR30.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Family Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Gorge Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of the Columbia Gorge · The Stebbins Fund Inc · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Columbia Gorge Health Council

How much does Columbia Gorge Health Council give?
Columbia Gorge Health Council reported 19 itemized grants totaling $2,875,373, out of $2,940,373 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Columbia Gorge Health Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (87%), Community Improvement (4%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Columbia Gorge Health Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: One Community Health ($2.8M), Mid-Columbia Medical Center ($2.0M), North Central Public Health District ($682k).
Does Columbia Gorge Health Council fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbia Gorge Health Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Family Foundation, Providence Health & Services - Oregon, The Roundhouse Foundation.
Where is Columbia Gorge Health Council based?
Columbia Gorge Health Council is based in OR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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