How much does United Way of Cowlitz County give?

United Way of Cowlitz County reported 11 itemized grants totaling $190,000, out of $272,133 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Cowlitz County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Crime & Legal (16%), Education (12%).

Who are United Way of Cowlitz County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St James Family Center ($184k), Emergency Support Shelter ($156k), Lower Columbia College ($131k).

Does United Way of Cowlitz County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Cowlitz County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Health Care Foundation, Nippon Dynawave Foundation, PeaceHealth.

Where is United Way of Cowlitz County based?

United Way of Cowlitz County is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

United Way of Cowlitz County

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

$272k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $190k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $65,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 21; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $537k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations United Way of Cowlitz County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	11	$190k	27%
FY2024	6	$107k	50%
FY2023	4	$38k	0%
FY2022	6	$60k	0%
FY2021	11	$167k	9%
FY2020	15	$237k	7%
FY2019	20	$237k	10%
FY2018	21	$300k	14%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$669kCrime & Legal$247kEducation$196kPublic Safety & Disaster$98kHousing & Shelter$97kArts & Culture$84kHealth$54kYouth Development$48kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St James Family Center	$184,251	9	3%
Emergency Support Shelter	$156,101	7	2%
Lower Columbia College	$130,517	6	n/a
Children's Justice& Advocacy Center	$111,101	6	13%
FISH of Cowlitz County	$105,101	8	9%
Cowlitz County Child Advocates	$85,406	8	4%
Community House on Broadway	$73,414	5	2%
Progress Center Inc	$69,900	3	2%
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc	$50,760	6	5%
Lower Columbia School Gardens	$46,701	3	6%

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All grantees of United Way of Cowlitz County by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
St James Family Center	$184,251	9	3%
Emergency Support Shelter	$156,101	7	2%
Lower Columbia College	$130,517	6	n/a
Children's Justice& Advocacy Center	$111,101	6	13%
FISH of Cowlitz County	$105,101	8	9%
Cowlitz County Child Advocates	$85,406	8	4%
Community House on Broadway	$73,414	5	2%
Progress Center Inc	$69,900	3	2%
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc	$50,760	6	5%
Lower Columbia School Gardens	$46,701	3	6%
Ethnic Support Council	$42,900	4	11%
Life Works	$40,900	5	0%
Community Caring Project	$40,500	4	10%
The YMCA of Southwest Washington	$35,900	3	1%
Youth and Family Link	$35,800	4	1%
Childrens Discovery Museum	$34,240	4	13%
Community Health Partners	$33,500	4	5%
United Way of Cowlitz County	$25,900	3	2%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$25,400	3	0%
Oxford House Inc	$23,683	3	n/a
Hello Life Eating Disorder Recovery Services	$20,221	2	23%
Friends of Longview Senior Center	$16,900	2	19%
Cascade Pacific Council Boy Scouts of America	$11,900	2	0%
Woodland Action Center	$8,000	1	1%
Been There Done That	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Cowlitz County supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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 Health Care FoundationWA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About United Way of Cowlitz County

How much does United Way of Cowlitz County give?: United Way of Cowlitz County reported 11 itemized grants totaling $190,000, out of $272,133 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Cowlitz County fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Crime & Legal (16%), Education (12%).
Who are United Way of Cowlitz County's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St James Family Center ($184k), Emergency Support Shelter ($156k), Lower Columbia College ($131k).
Does United Way of Cowlitz County fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Cowlitz County?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Health Care Foundation, Nippon Dynawave Foundation, PeaceHealth.
Where is United Way of Cowlitz County based?: United Way of Cowlitz County is based in WA.