· Private foundation
McGeer Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOOD RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA GORGE CASA | $3,000 |
| COLUMBIA GORGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $2,000 |
| HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE | $2,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $2,000 |
| ACLU | $2,000 |
| WHITSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HOOD RIVER WARMING SHELTER | $2,000 |
| WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,975 |
| WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS | $1,609 |
| WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,564 |
| HOOD RIVER ADOPT-A-DOG | $1,250 |
| FISH FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| OPB | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) 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.
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.
Administer wic program, family resources program, commodities distribution, emergency shelter program
Provide food to local needy
Child abuse victim assistance
To deliver meals to shut-ins who cannot or should not prepare meals for themselves.
The mission of Columbia Community Care is to create authentic connections and community partnerships. We listen, and respond by providing resources and programs, while respecting the inherent dignity of every person.
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…
Advocacy for abused and neglectedchildren
The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.
Trained and supported volunteer guardian ad litems for the children of Kittitas County
Coordinating agency for abused children
Provide referrals for court mandated community service. offer meal delivery for home bound individuals.
Providing leadership on environmental and conservation issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Gorge Action Programs and the most unlike its peers is White Salmon Valley Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 COLUMBIA GORGE CASA ↗
- Who funds WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FISH Food Bank ↗
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: United Way of the Columbia Gorge · Greenfish Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 McGeer Family 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
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center — 12% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Casa — 1% 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.