· Public charity
Columbia Gorge Health Council
Our COLUMBIA GORGE HEALTH COUNCIL addresses barriers to health and well-being in the columbia gorge.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $2,875,373 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,940,373 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,000 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE COMMUNITY HEALTH | $715,168 |
| MID-COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER | $414,219 |
| COLUMBIA GORGE FAMILY MEDICINE | $279,136 |
| MID-COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $200,000 |
| SAFE SPACE (CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER) | $200,000 |
| SUMMIT FAMILY MEDICINE | $141,580 |
| ADVANTAGE DENTAL SERVICES | $115,517 |
| COLUMBIA CASCADE HOUSING CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| THE NEXT DOOR INC | $100,000 |
| MID-COLUMBIA CENTER FOR LIVING | $96,168 |
| NORTH CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH DISTRICT | $92,676 |
| PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $88,963 |
| HOOD RIVER COUNTY | $84,864 |
| BETTER TOGETHER CENTRAL OREGON | $69,400 |
| ODS COMMUNITY HEALTH INC | $57,467 |
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 (FY22–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k 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
ONE COMMUNITY HEALTH4× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +297%- MCMid-Columbia Community Action Council2× · 2022–2024 · $365k · revenue +16%
- TNTHE NEXT DOOR INC5× · 2020–2024 · $289k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $115k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +41%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Columbia Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Community Collective. 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 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 62 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 ONE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Mid-Columbia Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Mid-Columbia Community Action Council ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CASCADE HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MID-COLUMBIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Better Together Central Oregon ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WASCO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOR KLICKITAT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds FISH Food Bank ↗
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: 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
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 Gorge Health Council 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Wasco Alliance — 100% of income from government
- Columbia Cascade Housing Corp — 53% of income from government
- Mid-Columbia Community Action Council — 43% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- One Community Health — 13% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center — 12% of income from government
- Mid-Columbia Medical Center — 0% 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.