Washington · Public charity
United Way of the Blue Mountains
Uwbm empowers donors, volunteers, advocates, and agencies to improve the health, education and financial stability of every person in columbia, garfield and walla walla counties in wa and baker, morrow, umatilla, union and wallowa counties in or.
- $615k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $33k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of the Blue Mountains funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $101k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $124k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $263k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $743k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $104k | 92% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $202k | 8% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $210k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountain Humane Society | $206,240 | 1 | 10% |
| Walla Walla Community College Foundation | $140,597 | 1 | 6% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla | $125,271 | 4 | 2% |
| Youth for Christblue Mountain Hermiston Campus Life Inc | $89,124 | 6 | 13% |
| The Salvation Army | $85,680 | 6 | n/a |
| Camp Fire Walla Walla | $76,531 | 4 | 7% |
| Walla Walla YMCA | $64,230 | 2 | 1% |
| Helpline | $62,210 | 4 | 9% |
| Childrens Home Society of Washington | $59,659 | 3 | 0% |
| Blue Mountain Action Council | $55,139 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of the Blue Mountains supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Sherwood Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · Wells Charitable Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation
How this is measured
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About United Way of the Blue Mountains
- How much does United Way of the Blue Mountains give?
- United Way of the Blue Mountains reported 2 itemized grants totaling $32,500, out of $615,025 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of the Blue Mountains fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Youth Development (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are United Way of the Blue Mountains's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blue Mountain Humane Society ($206k), Walla Walla Community College Foundation ($141k), Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla ($125k).
- Does United Way of the Blue Mountains fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Blue Mountains?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, Sherwood Trust, George T Welch Testamentary Trust.
- Where is United Way of the Blue Mountains based?
- United Way of the Blue Mountains is based in WA.
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