Washington · Public charity
Columbus Charities
Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities
- $291k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $263k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,365
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,578
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $438k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Columbus Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $263k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $288k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $123k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peter B Teeley Childrens Charities Foundation Inc | $419,707 | 3 | 61% |
| Special Olympics Washington | $159,023 | 4 | 1% |
| American Wheelchair Foundation | $33,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Larche Spokane | $26,811 | 3 | 2% |
| Joya Charitable Foundation | $23,496 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima | $12,415 | 1 | 0% |
| Diocese of Spokane | $12,415 | 1 | n/a |
| Archdiocese of Seattle Office for Catholic Schools | $11,365 | 1 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Washington | $9,101 | 1 | 0% |
| The Arc of Spokane | $6,269 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peter B Teeley Childrens Charities Foundation Inc | $419,707 | 3 | 61% |
| Special Olympics Washington | $159,023 | 4 | 1% |
| American Wheelchair Foundation | $33,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Larche Spokane | $26,811 | 3 | 2% |
| Joya Charitable Foundation | $23,496 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima | $12,415 | 1 | 0% |
| Diocese of Spokane | $12,415 | 1 | n/a |
| Archdiocese of Seattle Office for Catholic Schools | $11,365 | 1 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Washington | $9,101 | 1 | 0% |
| The Arc of Spokane | $6,269 | 1 | 0% |
| The Anna Schindler Foundation Inc | $5,541 | 1 | 1% |
| Pegasus Project Foundation | $5,272 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Columbus Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Columbus Charities
- How much does Columbus Charities give?
- Columbus Charities reported 10 itemized grants totaling $263,039, out of $290,659 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Columbus Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (58%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Health (8%).
- Who are Columbus Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Peter B Teeley Childrens Charities Foundation Inc ($420k), Special Olympics Washington ($159k), American Wheelchair Foundation ($33k).
- Does Columbus Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Columbus Charities based?
- Columbus Charities is based in WA.
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