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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$47k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$666kCivil Rights$29kHealth$19kReligion$15kInternational$9kArts & Culture$8kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $187,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,189,136 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,001,636 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $157k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
350 DESCHUTES$47,000
OR PHYSICIANS SOCIAL RESP$18,500
WA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT$18,500
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE$17,500
CRAG$15,000
ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OR$15,000
350 PDX$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
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WILD IDAHO RISING TIDE: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER: $8k → 16%SOCIAL GOOD FUND: $17k → 9%THE SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $21k → 10%SAVE CALIFORNIA SALMON: $15k → 18%WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE: $18k → 17%THE UPRISE COLLECTIVE: $14k → 8%350 DESCHUTES: $47k → 10%350 PDX: $25k → 12%ROGUE CLIMATE: $32k → 13%BREACH COLLECTIVE: $64k → 15%WASHINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL COUN: $22k → 9%PEOPLE OF THE CONFLUENCE: $8k → 9%NATIVE DAILY NETWORK: $20k → 9%SOCIAL GOOD FUND: $7k → 9%CA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $8k → 10%TREES FOUNDATION: $7k → 18%350 DESCHUTES: $17k → 10%350 PDX: $15k → 12%ROGUE CLIMATE: $15k → 13%BREACH COLLECTIVE: $46k → 15%350 TACOMA: $28k → 9%PEOPLE OF THE CONFLUENCE: $7k → 9%NATIVE DAILY PROGRAM: $12k → 9%350 DESCHUTES: $13k → 10%350 PDX: $15k → 12%BEYOND TOXICS: $7k → 15%350 TACOMA: $13k → 9%WBR WE BLACK RADIO LLC: $8k → 10%350 PDX: $11k → 12%WA PHYSICIANS: $9k → 9%OTHER 98 PERCENT LAB: $7k → 12%WA PHYSICIANS: $9k → 9%OR PHYSICIANS SOCIAL RESP: $19k → 12%WA PHYSICIANS: $6k → 9%CRAG: $15k → 12%WA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $19k → 9%OR PHYSICIANS SOCIAL RESP: $10k → 12%UNKITAWA: $10k → 9%OR PHYSICIANS SOCIAL: $9k → 12%UNKITAWA: $7k → 9%ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OR: $15k → 12%350 SEATTLE: $24k → 9%350 SEATTLE: $10k → 9%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$498k · 11 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$498k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+39%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationInternationalPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BC
    BREACH COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $110k · revenue +30%
  • 3D
    350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes
    3× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue +12% · 43% of their budget
  • 3S
    350 Seattle
    2× · 2021–2022 · $34k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +22%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue -71%
  • SC
    Save California Salmon
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
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
2
Earth Day Oregon
—
3
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

—
4
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment
5
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
6
350EUG

Environmental education

Education
7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
8
Cascade Climate Inc

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

Environment
9
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
10
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
11
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
12
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides

The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) works to protect community and environmental health and inspire the use of ecologically sound solutions to reduce the use of pesticides.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 350PDX; the most unlike its peers is Social Good Fund Inc. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREACH COLLECTIVE: $109,501 · EnvironmentBREACH COLLECTIVE350PDX: $66,000 · Environment350PDX350 Tacoma: $41,300 · Environment350 TacomaOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility: $37,500 · EnvironmentOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility350 Seattle: $33,500 · Environment350 SeattleWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $22,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $17,500 · EnvironmentUNKITAWA: $17,000 · EnvironmentSave California Salmon: $15,000 · EnvironmentCASCADIA WILDLANDS: $15,000 · EnvironmentCRAG LAW CENTER: $15,000 · Environment+3 more: $22,500 · EnvironmentNATIVE DAILY NETWORK: $32,000 · OtherNATIVE DAILY NETWO…EARTH MINISTRY: $18,500 · OtherEARTH MINISTRYPEOPLE OF THE CONFLUENCE: $15,000 · OtherPEOPLE OF THE CONF…ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON: $15,000 · OtherECUMENICAL MINISTR…WILD IDAHO RISING TIDE: $10,000 · OtherWILD IDAHO RISING …WBR WE BLACK RADIO LLC: $8,000 · OtherWBR WE BLACK RADIO…Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: $7,000 · OtherNorthwest Alliance…Trees Foundation: $7,000 · OtherTrees FoundationNAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119: $7,000 · OtherNAACP Eugene-Sprin…Rogue Climate: $47,000 · EducationRogue Climat…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $24,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD …The UPRISE Collective: $13,860 · EducationThe UPRISE C…350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes: $76,500 · Public Benefit350 DESCHUT…Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $23,000 · InternationalNa'ah Illahee Fund: $8,000 · InternationalOTHER 98 PERCENT LAB: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$432,801Other$119,500Education$84,860Public Benefit$76,500International$31,000Philanthropy$7,000

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 budgetBREACH COLLECTIVE: $109,501 over 2y, 9.5% of budget350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes: $76,500 over 3y, 43% of budget350PDX: $66,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetRogue Climate: $47,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility: $37,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budget350 Seattle: $33,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $23,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH MINISTRY: $18,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNKITAWA: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSave California Salmon: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCASCADIA WILDLANDS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCRAG LAW CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe UPRISE Collective: $13,860 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNorthwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTrees Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBeyond Toxics: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNAACP Eugene-Springfield Branch 1119: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOTHER 98 PERCENT LAB: $7,000 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

Meyer Memorial TrustPatagoniaorgThe Bullitt FoundationSeeding JusticeWashington Conservati…The Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Seattle FoundationThe Rose Foundation f…The Schmidt Family Fo…The Lazar FoundationUnited States Energy …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • The Uprise Collective: 17% of income from government
  • Beyond Toxics: 13% of income from government
  • Rogue Climate: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 31 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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