· Public charity
Mid-Columbia Health Foundation
To work together with and provide financial support to mid-columbia medical center in order to provide access to quality healthcare for our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $2,056,012 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,033,844 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $977,832 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID-COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER | $2,031,946 |
| CGCC FOUNDATION | $12,300 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,883 |
| THE NEXT DOOR | $5,883 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
Education for youths eating disorders
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
Family-Driven Community of Support for caregivers of children with a range of behavioral health needs.
Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.
The Welcome Center assists refugee immigrants in Malheur County to find the resources they need to build successful futures in our community.
We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.
To inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health.
To foster bridges of care, uniting and empowering Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander communities in the West Portland Metro Area through education, mentorship, and cultural advocacy.
To be an advocate for children and families
Centro cultural promotes education and economic development, increases cultural consciousness, responds to community needs and celebrates understanding among the diverse groups in our community.
To alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in Wasco, Hood River, and Sherman Counties. The purpose of MCCAC shall be the promotion of self sufficiency in families and individuals within the low income economic ranges in the three…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Next Door Inc and the most unlike its peers is Columbia Gorge Pregnancy Resource Centers. 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 11 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 Mid-Columbia Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE DALLES MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NORTH WASCO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 21 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Roundhouse Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · 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 Mid-Columbia Health 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.
- Youth Empowerment Shelter — 65% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Dalles Meals On Wheels Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mid-Columbia Medical Center — 0% 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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