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Columbia Lutheran Charities

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$174k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$63,720
Largest grant, FY2024
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$535M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Columbia Lutheran Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23
HealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsEducationOther
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 arriving3$174k67%
FY20234$60k25%
FY20226$167k50%
FY20215$128k40%
FY20205$94k100%
FY20183$20k33%
FY20175$152kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$383kHealth$110kInternational$64kCommunity Improvement$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kRecreation & Sports$33kHousing & Shelter$30kAnimals$24kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clatsop Community College Foundation$314,06059%
Medical Teams International$63,72010%
Clatsop Community College$59,0602n/a
Caring for Clatsop Coalition$50,0001n/a
Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce$45,00051%
Columbia Pacific Economic Developme$40,00021%
Restoration House Inc$30,0001n/a
Knappa Fire District$30,0001n/a
Nami Oregon$25,00022%
Clatsop County Junior Market Auction Association$23,96032%
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All grantees of Columbia Lutheran Charities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clatsop Community College Foundation$314,06059%
Medical Teams International$63,72010%
Clatsop Community College$59,0602n/a
Caring for Clatsop Coalition$50,0001n/a
Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce$45,00051%
Columbia Pacific Economic Developme$40,00021%
Restoration House Inc$30,0001n/a
Knappa Fire District$30,0001n/a
Nami Oregon$25,00022%
Clatsop County Junior Market Auction Association$23,96032%
United Way of Clatsop County$20,000111%
Lewis & Clark Fire Department$18,9411n/a
Bumble Preschool and Childcare$18,4502n/a
Smart Foodservice (United Grocers Inc$13,5411n/a
Oregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education Foundation$10,00010%
City of Astoria$10,0001n/a
Astoria High School Scholarships Inc$9,40011%
Astoria Regatta Association$7,570110%
American Cancer Society Inc$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Columbia Lutheran Charities supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClatsop Community College Foundation: $314,060 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetMedical Teams International: $63,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAstoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce: $45,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetColumbia Pacific Economic Developme: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNami Oregon: $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetClatsop County Junior Market Auction Association: $23,960 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUnited Way of Clatsop County: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAstoria High School Scholarships Inc: $9,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAstoria Regatta Association: $7,570 over 1y, 10% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · The Ford Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lutheran Charities

How much does Columbia Lutheran Charities give?
Columbia Lutheran Charities reported 3 grants totaling $173,720 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Columbia Lutheran Charities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Health (14%), International (8%).
Who are Columbia Lutheran Charities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clatsop Community College Foundation ($314k), Medical Teams International ($64k), Clatsop Community College ($59k).
Does Columbia Lutheran Charities fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbia Lutheran Charities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Providence Health & Services - Oregon, The Ford Family Foundation.
Where is Columbia Lutheran Charities based?
Columbia Lutheran Charities 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 19 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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