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The Health Care Foundation

Distributing grants to local nonprofits for worthy projects.

$431k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MHuman Services$867kFood & Nutrition$456kPublic Safety & Disaster$312kHousing & Shelter$168kEducation$73kCrime & Legal$61kYouth Development$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
$20,551
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS$100,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS$60,000
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY$60,000
PEACEHEALTH$50,000
LION'S SIGHT & HEARING FOUNDATION$30,000
CHILDREN'S JUSTICE & ADVOCACY CTR$30,000
COWLITZ FIRE & RESCUE$20,551
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY$20,000
CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$15,000
HEVIN$13,000
LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDEN$10,799
UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY$10,000
LIFEWORKS$7,319
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY PROMISE: $10k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $168k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP: $85k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $80k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $80k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $80k → 13%LIFEWORKS: $60k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $60k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $60k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $60k → 13%LIFEWORKS: $60k → 13%YMCA: $53k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE: $50k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $50k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $30k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $30k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $28k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $25k → 13%YOUTH & FAMILY LINK: $25k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $25k → 13%YOUTH AND FAMILY LINK: $23k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP: $23k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $21k → 13%LOVE OVERWHELMING: $20k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $20k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $20k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $20k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $19k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $15k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $14k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $14k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $10k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $9k → 13%LIFEWORKS: $8k → 13%LIFEWORKS: $7k → 13%LIFE WORKS: $7k → 13%LIFEWORKS: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 17 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$3.7M
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+40%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CH
    Community Health Partners
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +51% · 48% of their budget
  • FO
    FISH of Cowlitz County
    9× · 2017–2025 · $591k · revenue +21% · 47% of their budget
  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +168% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $53k · revenue -65%
  • TY
    THE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    COWLITZ COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 1 FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia Wellness

CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.

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2
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc

Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid seeks to assure justice for low income people in the civil courts. We provide access to legal help for people whose livelihood, family and wellness are threatened.

Crime & Legal
3
Chelan Valley Hope

Chelan Valley Hope is a gross-roots local social services agency 'hub' for compassionate connections and resources since 2009. We empower people to improve their own lives by giving them a hand up; not just a hand-out. We do this by…

Human Services
4
Cowlitz Chaplaincy

Religion/Charity/Education

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5
Columbia River Mental Health Services

Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.

Health
6
Columbia Community Care

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.

Human Services
7
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health
8
Lake Chelan Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Wellness Collective

Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.

Health
10
Columbia Health Services

Columbia health services exists to improve the health of the people of columbia county.

Health
11
Columbia Valley Community Health

The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.

Health
12
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lower Columbia Community Action Council and the most unlike its peers is 1414 Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr11%14%5–10yr17%24%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr23%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr11%3%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr15%42%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr23%6%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
13%
70/529

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 34 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FISH of Cowlitz County — $591,300 · Human ServicesFISH of Cowlitz CountyEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER — $217,500 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTERCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY — $168,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAYLIFE WORKS — $148,244 · Human ServicesLIFE WORKSCommunity Home Health & Hospice — $140,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Home Health & HospiceLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL — $107,700 · Human ServicesLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILFamily Promise of Cowlitz County — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $52,666 · Human Services+2 more — $68,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Health Partners — $1,050,000 · HealthCommunity Health PartnersCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $179,666 · HealthCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY RESOURCESHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES — $146,450 · HealthHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SER…PeaceHealth — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $30,000 · HealthLIONS SIGHT & HEARING FOUNDATION OF COWLITZ COUNTY — $170,000 · OtherLIONS SIGHT…COWLITZ COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 1 FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — $50,469 · OtherCOWLITZ COU…1414 CLUB — $42,000 · Other1414 CLUBCOWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM COUNCIL OF GOV — $31,000 · OtherCOWLITZ-WAH…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE LOCAL 3828 — $20,551 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $19,100 · OtherSAFE KIDS LOWER COLUMBIA — $15,000 · OtherCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $41,138 · Other+5 moreLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS — $330,739 · EnvironmentLOWER COL…PEACEHEALTH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $242,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $53,044 · EducationLongview Library Foundation — $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER — $61,250 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,553,410Health$1,456,116Other$404,258Environment$330,739Philanthropy$252,000Education$73,044Crime & Legal$61,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Health Partners — $1,050,000 over 9y, 48% of budgetFISH of Cowlitz County — $591,300 over 9y, 47% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS — $330,739 over 8y, 28% of budgetPEACEHEALTH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $242,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER — $217,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $179,666 over 4y, 48% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY — $168,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLIFE WORKS — $148,244 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES — $146,450 over 5y, 59% of budgetCommunity Home Health & Hospice — $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL — $107,700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER — $61,250 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetFamily Promise of Cowlitz County — $60,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $53,044 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $52,666 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPeaceHealth — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth and Family Link — $48,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget1414 CLUB — $42,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetCORE HEALTH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE OVERWHELMING — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLongview Library Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHEVIN — $13,000 over 1y, 17% of budget
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.

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.

The Honorable Frank L…United Way of Cowlitz…The Kirchner Foundati…The Wollenberg Founda…The Firstenburg Found…John M McClelland Sr …PeaceHealthKaiser Foundation Hos…Nippon Dynawave Found…Evans-Kelly Family Fo…Evans Venture Foundat…School's Out Washingt…
The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price FoundationWA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · United Way of Cowlitz County · The Kirchner Foundation · The Wollenberg Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · PeaceHealth · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · Evans Venture Foundation · School's Out Washington

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 The Health Care 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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