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The Kirchner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $10,000 |
| WA ELKS CHARITIABLE TRUST | $10,000 |
| PEACEHEALTH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER | $9,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF COWLITZ COUNTY | $7,500 |
| ST ROSE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| ST ROSE SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| SETON CATHOLIC COLLEGE PREP | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $2,500 |
| EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER | $2,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOWER COLUMBIA | $2,000 |
| CABARET FOLLIES OF LOWER COLUMBIA | $1,500 |
| SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON WIND SYMPHONY | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ADVOCACY CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $54k) 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.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +27%
- LCLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +144%
- CTCOLUMBIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- PUPROJECT UPLIFTone grant, 2019 · $10k
- LCLOWER COLUMBIA CAPone grant, 2024 · $3k
- SPSEATTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Provide food to local needy
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.
A non-profit developer of permanent, affordable, tiny homes for the unsettled residents of Clark County, Washington.
Assist low income families
Provide case management and housing to homeless persons
Community lunch on capitol hill provides hot nutritious meals, clothing and other critical services to those enduring homelessness and economic hardship. our meals are open to all in a welcoming and inclusive environment.
To collect and distribute food and related items to families and individuals
To be an advocate for children and families
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.
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
Religion/Charity/Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge Meadows and the most unlike its peers is Project Uplift. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 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. 17 of the 40 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 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOWER COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds FISH of Cowlitz County ↗
- Who funds CASCADE MEDICAL TEAM ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Cowlitz County ↗
- Who funds Youth and Family Link ↗
- Who funds Community Health Partners ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY ↗
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: John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · The Health Care Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of Cowlitz County · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · Evans Venture Foundation · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · The Wollenberg Foundation · PeaceHealth · Central National Gottesman 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 The Kirchner 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.
- Bridge Meadows — 36% 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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