How much does Columbia Riverkeeper give?

Columbia Riverkeeper reported 12 itemized grants totaling $187,500, out of $1,189,136 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Columbia Riverkeeper fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Civil Rights (4%), Health (2%).

Who are Columbia Riverkeeper's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Breach Collective ($110k), 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes ($77k), 350pdx ($66k).

Does Columbia Riverkeeper fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Columbia Riverkeeper?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, Patagoniaorg, The Bullitt Foundation.

Where is Columbia Riverkeeper based?

Columbia Riverkeeper is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Columbia Riverkeeper

To protect and restore the water quality of the columbia river and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the pacific ocean. Our strategy for protecting the columbia includes working in river communities and protecting the people, fish and wildlife that depend on the columbia river.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2024: 4
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $188k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $47,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 16; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $7.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Columbia Riverkeeper funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentPublic BenefitInternational

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	12	$188k	67%
FY2023	4	$54k	25%
FY2022	13	$237k	31%
FY2021	16	$243k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$666kCivil Rights$29kHealth$19kReligion$15kInternational$9kArts & Culture$8kPhilanthropy$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Breach Collective	$109,501	2	9%
350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes	$76,500	3	43%
350pdx	$66,000	4	4%
Rogue Climate	$47,000	2	3%
350 Tacoma	$41,300	2	n/a
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility	$37,500	3	5%
350 Seattle	$33,500	2	3%
Native Daily Network	$32,000	2	n/a
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility	$23,000	3	2%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$22,000	1	1%

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All grantees of Columbia Riverkeeper by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Breach Collective	$109,501	2	9%
350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes	$76,500	3	43%
350pdx	$66,000	4	4%
Rogue Climate	$47,000	2	3%
350 Tacoma	$41,300	2	n/a
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility	$37,500	3	5%
350 Seattle	$33,500	2	3%
Native Daily Network	$32,000	2	n/a
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility	$23,000	3	2%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$22,000	1	1%
Sierra Club Foundation	$21,000	1	0%
Earth Ministry	$18,500	1	7%
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc	$17,500	1	0%
Unkitawa	$17,000	2	0%
People of the Confluence	$15,000	2	n/a
Save California Salmon	$15,000	1	1%
Cascadia Wildlands	$15,000	1	1%
Crag Law Center	$15,000	1	1%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon	$15,000	1	n/a
The UPRISE Collective	$13,860	1	5%
Wild Idaho Rising Tide	$10,000	1	n/a
California Interfaith Power & Light	$8,000	1	n/a
Wbr We Black Radio LLC	$8,000	1	n/a
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$8,000	1	0%
Friends of the Clearwater Inc	$7,500	1	5%
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education	$7,000	1	1%
Beyond Toxics	$7,000	1	1%
NAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119	$7,000	1	1%
Other 98 Percent Lab	$7,000	1	3%

Columbia Riverkeeper supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 22.

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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.

Meyer Memorial TrustOR29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · Patagoniaorg · The Bullitt Foundation · Seeding Justice · Washington Conservation Action Education Fund · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Lazar Foundation · United States Energy 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 Riverkeeper

How much does Columbia Riverkeeper give?: Columbia Riverkeeper reported 12 itemized grants totaling $187,500, out of $1,189,136 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Columbia Riverkeeper fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Civil Rights (4%), Health (2%).
Who are Columbia Riverkeeper's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Breach Collective ($110k), 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes ($77k), 350pdx ($66k).
Does Columbia Riverkeeper fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Columbia Riverkeeper?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, Patagoniaorg, The Bullitt Foundation.
Where is Columbia Riverkeeper based?: Columbia Riverkeeper is based in OR.