How much did UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY grant in FY2025?

UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY reported 11 grants totaling $272,133 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY based?

UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY is based in WA.

UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY

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

$272k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$65k

Largest

01What you fund

0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$545kCrime & Legal$144kCivil Rights$74kHealth$48kEnvironment$47kArts & Culture$34kYouth Development$6kOther$438k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

cdmchildren'smuseumeducationalquarterlyexhibitsenvironment

2022

worksvolunteerchildrenadvocates

2023

cdmchildren'smuseumeducationalquarterlyexhibitsadvocates

2024

legal

2025

legaladvocates

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k8 grants · $111k
$50k–250k1 grant · $65k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$537k

Total assets

Largest grants

ESD 112$65,000
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY$16,000
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER$15,000
HELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES$15,000
ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER$15,000
COWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM LEGAL AID$15,000
COMMUNITY CARING PROJECT PARENT'S PLACE$12,500
FAMILY PROMISE$12,000
ETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCIL$10,000
COWLITZ CHILD ADVOCATES$8,500
LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against -36% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

-36%

Still filing today

95%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

SJ
ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER
8× · 2018–2025 · $159k · revenue +25%
ES
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER
6× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +18%
FO
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY
7× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +21%

Funded once

CC
COWLITZ COMMUNITY NETWORK
one grant, 2024 · $50k
ES
ETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCIL
one grant, 2024 · $10k
HL
HELLO LIFE
one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services

Colebrook Community Child Care

The mission is to improve and expand the availability of child care services to the parents and children in northern Coos County.

Education

Caring Pregnancy Center of Cowlitz Co

Caring Pregnancy Center exists to educate, equip and empower women to make informed, life-affirming choices.

Health

Community Action Center

The center provides resources and direct services to low income residents.

Human Services

Clackamas Service Center

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.

Human Services

Center for Community Services

The center for community services empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through crisis assistance and employment readiness.

Human Services

Central Washington Disability Resources

Provide services to disabled individuals including counseling, assistance finding housing, and instruction on daily living skills. A swim program, resource library and various education classes are also provided.

Human Services

The Family Support Center of South Sound

Provide services to foster healthy child development and help families obtain self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter

Longview Child Development Center

Daycare for low income families with preschool children

Human Services

Cottesmore Childcare Centers

To provide quality early childhood programs meeting the needs of families in the greater tacoma and gig harbor peninsula areas.

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Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cowlitz County Child Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Ethnic Support Council. 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 39 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

12%

63/535

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

17/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$545,167Other$437,900Crime & Legal$144,461Civil Rights$73,506Health$47,821Environment$46,701Arts & Culture$34,240Youth Development$6,000

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.

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 Health Care FoundationWA29.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Health Care Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · Evans Venture Foundation · The Kirchner Foundation · John M McClelland Sr Charitable · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G · The Wollenberg Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Peacehealth · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America

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 organisation UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HELLO LIFE RECOVERY SERVICES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474360126 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HELLO LIFE RECOVERY SERVICES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to United Way of Cowlitz County?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Cowlitz County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Cowlitz County?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Cowlitz County?

More from the funding graph