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Gorge Community Foundation

To build permanent charitable funds.

$483k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$705kHealth$295kAnimals$149kPhilanthropy$113kHuman Services$99kArts & Culture$88kFood & Nutrition$88kEnvironment$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $262,799, the rows itemized in this filing. The $482,794 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $219,995 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $199k
$13,900
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $5k → 10%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$553k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$410k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-9%

Still filing today

50%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $285k · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NEXT DOOR INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +99%
  • LU
    Linfield University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $79k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • S
    SCHOLORSHIPS
    one grant, 2023 · $161k
  • KL
    KEOKA LAKE ASSN
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue -95% · 56% of their budget
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
Central Oregon Center for the Arts

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

Arts & Culture
2
Columbia Insight

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

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…

Animals
4
MusicOregon

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
6
Greater Oregon City Watershed Council

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.

Environment
7
Columbia Gorge Casa

To be an advocate for children and families

Crime & Legal
8
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
9
Pacific Grove Art Center Associates Inc

Cultivation of the arts for the community

Arts & Culture
10
Healthy Community Collective

Support nonprofit organizations and community-based work

Human Services
11
Mt Hood Learning Center

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.

Human Services
12
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hood River Senior Citizens Inc; 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.
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 41 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLORSHIPS: $160,890 · OtherSCHOLORSHIPSGRANTS 5000: $133,505 · OtherGRANTS 5000Hood River County School District: $90,460 · OtherHood River County School DistrictPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $61,500 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITYHood River County: $57,400 · OtherHood River CountyOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $53,150 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYSILENT WAVE HORSE RESCUE: $51,239 · OtherKEOKA LAKE ASSN: $50,000 · OtherGORGE YOUTH LEAD: $40,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $32,300 · OtherFISH Food Bank: $66,746 · OtherFISH Food Bank+10 more: $166,300 · Other+10 moreHEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY: $285,000 · HealthHEALTHY LIVING CO…PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthSHERMAN COUNTY ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropySHERMAN C…UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $45,094 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…TIDES FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGO…MOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $55,700 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE: $42,536 · Arts & CultureDANCE WIRE: $24,000 · Arts & CultureHOOD RIVER COUNTY HERITAGE COUNCIL: $10,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURESEED INC: $5,900 · Arts & CultureARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGE: $5,200 · Arts & CultureLinfield University: $78,500 · EducationVENN ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationHOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN: $17,000 · EducationLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $93,821 · Crime & LegalCOLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $26,745 · Crime & LegalROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC: $47,076 · AnimalsADOPT A DOG INC: $22,500 · Animals
Other$963,490Health$295,000Philanthropy$163,094Arts & Culture$143,836Education$130,500Crime & Legal$120,566Animals$69,576

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY: $285,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $93,821 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLinfield University: $78,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISH Food Bank: $66,746 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetMOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $55,700 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSHERMAN COUNTY ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC: $47,076 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $45,094 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE: $42,536 over 1y, 56% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $26,745 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVENN ACADEMY: $25,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetDANCE WIRE: $24,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetADOPT A DOG INC: $22,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMONUMENT SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE EARTH CENTER: $18,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN: $17,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHOOD RIVER COUNTY HERITAGE COUNCIL: $10,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $5,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5,250 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Ford Family Found…Greenfish FoundationThe Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustProvidence Health & S…Columbia Gorge Health…The Stebbins Fund IncThe Collins FoundationUnited Way of the Col…Bruce and Mary Steven…The Roundhouse Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Ford Family FoundationOR31.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Gorge Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gorge Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gorge Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gorge Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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