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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.

$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
$63,720
Median grant
1
States reached
$535M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$90,000
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$63,720
UNITED WAY$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $64k → 8%OREF HEALTHCARE RELIEF FUND: $10k → 8%COLUMBIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC DISTRICT: $20k → 11%NAMI OREGON: $15k → 12%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $90k → 13%RELAY FOR LIFE OF CLATSOP COUNTY - THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $5k → 13%COLUMBIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC DISTRICT: $20k → 11%NAMI OREGON: $10k → 12%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $81k → 13%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $80k → 13%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $54k → 13%CARING FOR CLATSOP COALITION: $50k → 13%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50k → 13%KNAPPA FIRE DISTRICT: $30k → 13%UNITED WAY: $20k → 13%LEWIS & CLARK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $19k → 13%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $13k → 13%ASTORIA-WARRENTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13k → 13%ASTORIA-WARRENTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13k → 13%ASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 13%CITY OF ASTORIA: $10k → 13%BUMBLE PRESCHOOL ART STUDIO: $10k → 13%ASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 13%ASTORIA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $9k → 13%BUMBLE PRESCHOOL: $8k → 13%ASTORIA REGATTA ASSOCIATION: $8k → 13%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%RESTORATION HOUSE: $30k → 13%SMART FOODSERVICE (UNITED GROCERS INC: $14k → 13%CLATSOP COUNTY JUNIOR MARKET AUCTION ASSN: $13k → 13%CLATSOP COUNTY JUNIOR MARKET AUCTION ASSN: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$526k · 7 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$526k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-19%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Clatsop Community College Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $314k · revenue +41%
  • AC
    ASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +17%
  • NAMI OREGON
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CF
    CARING FOR CLATSOP COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • RH
    RESTORATION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +3%
  • KF
    KNAPPA FIRE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Coos Bay Downtown Association

The association strives to establish and open line of communcation between merchants, property owners, and the city. common goals defined and working relationship continues.

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2
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
3
Team for Economic Action in Molalla

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.

Community Improvement
4
Astoria Scandinavian Midsummer Festival Association

To further scandinavian heritage

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5
Coquille Rotary Foundation Inc
Community Improvement
6
Tillamook County Fair Association

The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes in conjunction with the Tillamook County Fair Board, manager and staff. The Association will work to further and promote the…

Youth Development
7
Coos Bay Trawlers' Association Inc

To present association's concensus to agencies

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8
Astoria Downtown Development Association

Promote Downtown Astoria, Oregon.

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9
Earth Day Oregon
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10
Oregon Graduate Medical Education Consortium

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.

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11
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition

Oregon shores helps citizens and visitors learn about, enjoy and defend the oregon coast through natural history education and conservation action.

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12
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nami Oregon; the most unlike its peers is Medical Teams International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Clatsop Community College Foundation: $314,060 · OtherClatsop Community College FoundationClatsop Community College: $59,060 · OtherClatsop Community CollegeCARING FOR CLATSOP COALITION: $50,000 · OtherCARING FOR CLATSOP COALITIONASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45,000 · OtherASTORIA-WARRENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCEKNAPPA FIRE DISTRICT: $30,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CLATSOP COUNTY: $20,000 · Other+6 more: $78,502 · Other+6 moreMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $63,720 · InternationalMEDICAL T…RESTORATION HOUSE INC: $30,000 · HealthNAMI OREGON: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthCOLUMBIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPME: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCLATSOP COUNTY JUNIOR MARKET AUCTION ASSOCIATION: $23,960 · AnimalsASTORIA HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $9,400 · Education
Other$596,622International$63,720Health$60,000Community Improvement$40,000Animals$23,960Education$9,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 …Providence Health & S…The Ford Family Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Columbia Lutheran Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbia Lutheran Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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