Oregon · Community foundation
Gorge Community Foundation
To build permanent charitable funds.
- $483k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $263k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $133,505
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Gorge Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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 | 7 | $263k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $279k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $452k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $257k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $158k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $168k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $99k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Living Community | $285,000 | 4 | 27% |
| The Next Door Inc | $93,821 | 7 | 0% |
| Hood River County School District | $90,460 | 7 | n/a |
| Linfield University | $78,500 | 5 | 0% |
| FISH Food Bank | $66,746 | 7 | 5% |
| Portland State University | $61,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Hood River County | $57,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Mosier Community School Foundation Inc | $55,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Oregon State University | $53,150 | 3 | n/a |
| Silent Wave Horse Rescue | $51,239 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Living Community | $285,000 | 4 | 27% |
| The Next Door Inc | $93,821 | 7 | 0% |
| Hood River County School District | $90,460 | 7 | n/a |
| Linfield University | $78,500 | 5 | 0% |
| FISH Food Bank | $66,746 | 7 | 5% |
| Portland State University | $61,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Hood River County | $57,400 | 5 | n/a |
| Mosier Community School Foundation Inc | $55,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Oregon State University | $53,150 | 3 | n/a |
| Silent Wave Horse Rescue | $51,239 | 4 | n/a |
| Keoka Lake Assn | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sherman County Athletic Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 47% |
| Rowena Wildlife Clinic | $47,076 | 4 | 8% |
| United Way of the Columbia Gorge | $45,094 | 2 | 5% |
| Performing Arts Initiative | $42,536 | 1 | 56% |
| Gorge Youth Lead | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oregon State University | $32,300 | 3 | n/a |
| The Friends of the Hood River County Library | $29,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Hope 4 Paws | $27,750 | 4 | n/a |
| Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center | $26,745 | 1 | 1% |
| Venn Academy | $25,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Dance Wire | $24,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Adopt a Dog Inc | $22,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Monument Senior Citizens Association | $21,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Columbia Gorge Earth Center | $18,500 | 2 | 15% |
| Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hood River County Library Fdtn | $17,000 | 3 | 7% |
| California Polytechnic State University | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hood River County Heritage Council | $10,500 | 1 | 5% |
| White Salmon Valley School District | $10,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewis & Clark College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cultureseed Inc | $5,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hands Against Violence Inc | $5,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Hood River Senior Citizens Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Arts in Education of the Gorge | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($294k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gorge Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Gorge Community Foundation
- How much does Gorge Community Foundation give?
- Gorge Community Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $262,799, out of $482,794 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Gorge Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (16%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Gorge Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Healthy Living Community ($285k), The Next Door Inc ($94k), Hood River County School District ($90k).
- Does Gorge Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gorge Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Family Foundation, Greenfish Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation.
- Where is Gorge Community Foundation based?
- Gorge Community Foundation is based in OR.
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