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United Way of Cowlitz County

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

$272k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $190,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $272,133 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,133 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$537k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESD 112$65,000
FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY$16,000
COWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM LEGAL AID$15,000
HELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES$15,000
ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER$15,000
EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER$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
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 (FY21–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 11%ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $17k → 11%ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $16k → 11%ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $15k → 11%EMERGENCY SUPPORT: $23k → 13%ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $15k → 11%FISH: $17k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $16k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $15k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $14k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE: $12k → 13%EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $8k → 13%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $8k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 23 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
-20%

Still filing today

96%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +48%
  • ES
    EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +70%
  • CJ
    CHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $111k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CC
    COWLITZ COMMUNITY NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • ES
    ETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
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
2
West Central Community Development Assoc

Community center services

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3
Community Child Care Center

To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.

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4
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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5
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…

Crime & Legal
6
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
7
Malheur County Child Development Center

Head start & other children services

Education
8
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
9
Child Advocacy Center

To combat child sexual and physical abuse by providing services to children and families in a safe enviroment.

Human Services
10
Central Washington Disability Resources

To advance the empowerment, inclusion, and wellness of all persons with disabilities through advocacy, community education, peer mentoring, and skill development so that they may realize independence and full participation in all areas of…

Human Services
11
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
12
Willits Community Services Inc

The primary goal of Willits Community Services is to provide temporary assistance services to families and individuals in crisis. WCS also provides referrals to other community or regional resources and gives assistance to clients in…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $184,251 · Human ServicesST JAMES FAMILY CENTEREMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $156,101 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTERFISH of Cowlitz County: $105,101 · Human ServicesFISH of Cowlitz CountyCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $73,414 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAYLIFE WORKS: $40,900 · Human ServicesLIFE WORKSTHE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $35,900 · Human ServicesTHE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTONYouth and Family Link: $35,800 · Human ServicesYouth and Family LinkCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $25,400 · Human Services+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $130,517 · OtherLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGEPROGRESS CENTER INC: $69,900 · OtherPROGRESS CENTER INCESD 112: $65,000 · OtherESD 112COWLITZ COMMUNITY NETWORK: $50,000 · OtherCOWLITZ COMMUNITY NETWORKETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCIL: $42,900 · OtherETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCILCOMMUNITY CARING PROJECT: $40,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY CARING PROJECTUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $25,900 · OtherOxford House Inc: $23,683 · Other+6 more: $67,400 · Other+6 moreCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER: $111,101 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S …COWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM COUNTY LEGAL AID PROGRAM INC: $50,760 · Crime & LegalCOWLITZ-WAH…COWLITZ COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES: $85,406 · Civil RightsCommunity Health Partners: $33,500 · HealthHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES: $20,221 · HealthLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $46,701 · EnvironmentCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $34,240 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $11,900 · Youth Development
Human Services$664,867Other$515,800Crime & Legal$161,861Civil Rights$85,406Health$53,721Environment$46,701Arts & Culture$34,240Youth Development$11,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JAMES FAMILY CENTER: $184,251 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER: $156,101 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER: $111,101 over 6y, 13% of budgetFISH of Cowlitz County: $105,101 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetCOWLITZ COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES: $85,406 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $73,414 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPROGRESS CENTER INC: $69,900 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM COUNTY LEGAL AID PROGRAM INC: $50,760 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS: $46,701 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCIL: $42,900 over 4y, 11% of budgetLIFE WORKS: $40,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARING PROJECT: $40,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $35,900 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYouth and Family Link: $35,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $34,240 over 4y, 13% of budgetCommunity Health Partners: $33,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $25,900 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $25,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES: $20,221 over 2y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF LONGVIEW SENIOR CENTER: $16,900 over 2y, 19% of budgetCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $11,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND ACTION CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds ST JAMES FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FISH of Cowlitz County ↗
  • Who funds COWLITZ COUNTY CHILD ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COWLITZ-WAHKIAKUM COUNTY LEGAL AID PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ETHNIC SUPPORT COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LIFE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE YMCA OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Youth and Family Link ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Community Health Partners ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Oxford House Inc ↗
  • Who funds HELLO LIFE EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LONGVIEW SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND ACTION CENTER ↗

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 Found…Nippon Dynawave Found…PeaceHealthKaiser Foundation Hos…The Wollenberg Founda…The Honorable Frank L…The Kirchner Foundati…John M McClelland Sr …The Firstenburg Found…Bluescope Foundation …Evans-Kelly Family Fo…Evans Venture Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Cowlitz County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Cowlitz County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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