How much did Columbia Riverkeeper grant in FY2024?

Columbia Riverkeeper reported 12 grants totaling $1,189,136 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Columbia Riverkeeper based?

Columbia Riverkeeper is based in OR.

Columbia Riverkeeper

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· Public charity

Columbia Riverkeeper

Columbia Riverkeepers mission is to protect and restore the water quality of the columbia river and all life connected to it, from the headwaters to the pacific ocean.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$47k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Environment$433kEducation$85kPublic Benefit$77kInternational$31kPhilanthropy$7kOther$120k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

fossil fuel

2022

fossil fuel

2023

fossil fuel

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $31k
$10k–50k8 grants · $157k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

350 DESCHUTES$47,000
WA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT$18,500
OR PHYSICIANS SOCIAL RESP$18,500
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE$17,500
ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OR$15,000
350 PDX$15,000
CRAG$15,000
WILD IDAHO RISING TIDE$10,000
WA PHYSICIANS$8,500
WBR WE BLACK RADIO LLC$8,000
FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER$7,500
OTHER 98 PERCENT LAB$7,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$522k · 12 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +153% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$522k

$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+153%

+48%

Still filing today

83%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationInternationalPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

BC
BREACH COLLECTIVE
2× · 2021–2022 · $110k · revenue +727%
3D
350 DESCHUTES
3× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue +75% · 43% of their budget
3P
350 PDX
4× · 2021–2024 · $66k · revenue +82%

Funded once

WE
WASHINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +66%
TS
THE SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue -55%
CW
CASCADIA WILDLANDSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +148%

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

04Your field

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.

Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment

Nw Energy Coalition

NWEC leads a broad alliance advancing affordable, equitable clean energy. We envision a carbon-free system providing reliable energy, restoring natural resources, protecting salmon, supporting communities, and prioritizing decarbonization,…

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Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

Earth Day Oregon

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350 Seattle Action

Primary Exempt Purpose: Education and action toward climate justiceLine 28, Program Accomplishments: Fossil Fuel Resistance: educate people about fossil fuel projects and provide support for frontline organizers for their work resisting…

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350EUG

Environmental education

Education

Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment

Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment

Confluence Environmental Center

Confluence Environmental Center's mission is to bring together streams of thought, action and people to make the environmental movement more robust, inclusive and effective. We launched operations in September of 2011 as a project of the…

Environment

350 Bay Area Action

Mission: We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice. Our vision is that all who live in the Bay…

Environment

Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment

Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Conservation Action Education and the most unlike its peers is Unkitawa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

2,407/25,400

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

16/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$432,801Other$119,500Education$84,860Public Benefit$76,500International$31,000Philanthropy$7,000

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.

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.

Meyer Memorial TrustOR27.6× affinity11 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 · Washington Conservation Action Education · The Collins Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Oregon Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Lazar Foundation · United States Energy 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 organisation Columbia Riverkeeper 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: 350 DESCHUTES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +75% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475198905 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on 350 DESCHUTES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 43% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Columbia Riverkeeper?

Find your warmest path to Columbia Riverkeeper through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Columbia Riverkeeper

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Columbia Riverkeeper?

More from the funding graph

Columbia Riverkeeper

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Columbia Riverkeeper?

More from the funding graph