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Columbia Lutheran Charities
The mission of columbia memorial hospital is to provide excellence, leadership, and compassion in the enhancement of health for those we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $63,720 |
| UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your 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 +24% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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
Clatsop Community College Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $314k · revenue +41%- ACASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE5× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +17%
NAMI OREGON2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CFCARING FOR CLATSOP COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- RHRESTORATION HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +3%
- KFKNAPPA FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
The society is a private, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of clatsop county, oregon and the surrounding area.
The coos county historical society exists to enhance the intellectual, creative and civic life of coos county and the surrounding area, by facilitating awareness of its history.
Our mission is to promote health for the benefit of the community by identifying and supporting healthcare innovation and collaboration to achieve improved quality, reduced costs, and improved patient experience.
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
Medical educationthe consortium will creates primary care residency programs in many areas of the state. programs are structured in agreement with standards of the acgme.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Clatskanie Farmer Collective cultivates a resilient local agricultural system by increasing market opportunities, community engagement, and producer support.
CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
To build and maintain strong, diverse business districts; to create and retain living wage jobs; and to promote Molalla as a rewarding place to work, live, invest, and shop.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nami Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Restoration House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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 Clatsop Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPME ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OREGON ↗
- Who funds CLATSOP COUNTY JUNIOR MARKET AUCTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CLATSOP COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA REGATTA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · The Ford Family Foundation · 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 Lutheran Charities 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.
- Columbia Pacific Economic Developme — 77% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Nami Oregon — 10% of income from government
- Restoration House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Astoria-Warrenton Chamber of Commerce — 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.