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The Health Care Foundation

Distributing grants to local nonprofits for worthy projects

$519k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$867kFood & Nutrition$456kPublic Safety & Disaster$312kHousing & Shelter$168kEducation$73kCrime & Legal$61kYouth Development$23kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $428k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COWLITZ FREE CLINIC$130,000
LOWER COLUMBIA CAP$104,365
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY$79,069
COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS$60,000
PEACEHEALTH$55,048
YOUTH & FAMILY LINK$40,000
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER$29,912
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $1.8M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY PROMISE: $10k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $168k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP: $104k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP: $85k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $80k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $80k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $80k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $79k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $60k → 13%LIFEWORKS: $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%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $40k → 13%YOUTH & FAMILY LINK: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $40k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $40k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $30k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $30k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $30k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $28k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $25k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $25k → 13%YOUTH & FAMILY LINK: $25k → 13%YOUTH AND FAMILY LINK: $23k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA CAP: $23k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $21k → 13%LOVE OVERWHELMING: $20k → 13%COMMUNITY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $20k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $20k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $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
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 19 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

$4.3M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

89%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CH
    Community Health Partners
    10× · 2017–2026 · $1.2M · revenue +77% · 48% of their budget
  • FO
    FISH of Cowlitz County
    10× · 2017–2026 · $670k · 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
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
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
Cowlitz Chaplaincy

Religion/Charity/Education

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4
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
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
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
7
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
8
Community Wellness Collective

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

Health
9
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
10
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
11
United Way of Cowlitz County

To provide resources for human services programs in cowlitz and wahkiakum counties in washington.

—
12
Columbia Health Services

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lower Columbia Community Action Council; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISH of Cowlitz County: $670,369 · Human ServicesFISH of Cowlitz CountyEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $247,412 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTERLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $212,065 · Human ServicesLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILCOMMUNITY 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 & HospiceYouth and Family Link: $88,000 · Human Services+3 more: $132,666 · Human Services+3 moreCommunity Health Partners: $1,240,000 · HealthCommunity Health PartnersCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $179,666 · HealthCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY RESOURCESHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES: $146,450 · HealthHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVI…PeaceHealth: $105,048 · HealthPeaceHealth+1 more: $30,000 · HealthLIONS SIGHT & HEARING FOUNDATION OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $170,000 · OtherLIONS SIGH…COWLITZ COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 1 FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $50,469 · OtherCOWLITZ CO…1414 CLUB: $42,000 · Other1414 CLUBCOWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM COUNCIL OF GOV: $31,000 · OtherCOWLITZ-WA…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE LOCAL 3828: $20,551 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $19,100 · OtherSAFE KIDS LOWER COLUMBIA: $15,000 · OtherCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $35,000 · OtherCHILDRENS …+5 more: $41,138 · Other+5 moreLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $330,739 · EnvironmentPEACEHEALTH 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$1,806,756Health$1,701,164Other$424,258Environment$330,739Philanthropy$252,000Education$73,044Crime & Legal$61,250

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 budgetCommunity Health Partners: $1,240,000 over 10y, 48% of budgetFISH of Cowlitz County: $670,369 over 10y, 47% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $330,739 over 8y, 28% of budgetEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $247,412 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetPEACEHEALTH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $242,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $212,065 over 3y, 0.8% 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 budgetPeaceHealth: $105,048 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth and Family Link: $88,000 over 3y, 1.4% 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 budget1414 CLUB: $42,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $35,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCORE HEALTH: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE LOCAL 3828: $20,551 over 1y, 21% of budgetLOVE OVERWHELMING: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLongview Library Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHEVIN: $13,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.

    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 34 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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