· Public charity
Columbia Pacific Economic Developme
The COLUMBIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMEnt district is to diversify and expand the economic base of the district by actively supporting existing businesses and promoting new business development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $404,752 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $511,895 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,143 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 · FY2023
- $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST REGIONAL EDUCATION | $263,394 |
| ENCORE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| BUMBLE PRESCHOOL AND CHILDCARE | $25,000 |
| SUNSET EMPIRE PARK & RECREATION FOU | $25,000 |
| COAST KIDS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| LITTLE SEEDS NATURE SCHOOL LLC | $16,000 |
| LVE MEDIATION LLC | $15,358 |
| ASTORIA PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k 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
- CECLATSOP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES2× · 2020–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +18% · 42% of their budget
- EOEDC OF TILLAMOOK2× · 2020–2021 · $384k
- CRCOLUMBIA RIVER RECEPTION2× · 2020–2021 · $23k
Funded once
- ETEL TAPATIOone grant, 2021 · $26k
- CCCOLUMBIA COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- DMD & M SOLTERO LLCone grant, 2021 · $23k
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.
To provide Assistance to Senior Citizen Programs
Community resources, programs and services.
Provide funding to supplement activities
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
Services for Senior Citizens
To provide the senior residents of the community of Myrtle Point, Oregon a place to gather, socialize and share meals.
Youth education
To provide transportation, meals and other social services to senior citizens in the communities of jefferson county, oregon.
We serve the senior citizens of Southern Bingham County, and the Citizens of Aberdeen, Idaho Meals on Wheels and congregate meals onsite.
Placing foster children in satisfactory
Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.
Provide support for parks and recreational services in corvallis, oregon.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Regional Esd Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Helens Senior Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 61 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSET EMPIRE PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST HELENS SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Community Center 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 · 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 Pacific Economic Developme 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.
- St Helens Senior Center — 2% 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.