· Private foundation
The Columbia Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BITTERROOT CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $12,000 |
| MALTBY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| LAKESIDE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSeattle Children's Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +140%
- LSLAKESIDE SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +126%
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SPSeattle Police Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +33%
TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -36%- LBLITTLE BITS THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Seattle animal foundation (saf) is on a mission to make sure every animal finds the love, care, and forever home they deserve. since 2010, we have been a not-for-profit organization raising critical funds to support life-saving programs,…
Acting as a catalyst, connector, and knowledge facilitator to build racially equitable, accessible, inclusive pierce county where all people can shape and activate the systems that affect our communities, now and for generations to come.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Highline Medical Center Foundation brings our community together to support exceptional health care, close to home, for all who need it. Thanks to the generosity of our caring neighbors and friends, we help ensure that St Anne Hospital has…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Bitterroot Christian Ministries % Sue Jones ↗
- Who funds MALTBY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Columbia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Columbia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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