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Gorge Community Foundation
To build permanent charitable funds.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $262,799 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $482,794 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $219,995 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANTS 5000 | $133,505 |
| HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY | $65,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $17,594 |
| THE NEXT DOOR | $13,900 |
| HOOD RIVER LIBRARY DISTRICT | $12,300 |
| FISH FOODBANK | $10,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SUNSHINE CLUB | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY4× · 2021–2025 · $285k · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget- TNTHE NEXT DOOR INC7× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +99%
- LULinfield University5× · 2017–2021 · $79k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SSCHOLORSHIPSone grant, 2023 · $161k
- KLKEOKA LAKE ASSNone grant, 2021 · $50k
- PAPERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVEone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue -95% · 56% of their budget
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.
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
Columbia insights mission is to inform and inspire readers with original, balanced journalism about environmental issues affecting the pacific northwest with a special focus on the columbia river basin.
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
MusicOregon supports Oregons independent music creators and related professionals through artistic, cultural, educational, and public interest programs. We are committed to empowering creative musical excellence, promoting professional…
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
To conserve, enhance and protect the quality and ecological integrity of the watersheds by providing a cooperative forum to promote and facilitate integrated watershed management.
To be an advocate for children and families
Cultivation of the arts for the community
Support nonprofit organizations and community-based work
The mission of this entity is to provide childcare and pre-kindergarten schooling for children of ages 3-12 years of age in the welches, oregon community.
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hood River Senior Citizens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adopt a Dog Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds FISH Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN COUNTY ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VENN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DANCE WIRE ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A DOG INC ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE EARTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY HERITAGE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CULTURESEED INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS 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 Ford Family Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · Columbia Gorge Health Council · The Stebbins Fund Inc · The Collins Foundation · United Way of the Columbia Gorge · Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Gorge Community Foundation 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.
- Helping Hands Against Violence Inc — 48% of income from government
- Dance Wire — 47% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Mosier Community School Foundation Inc — 31% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center — 12% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 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.
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