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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$367kYouth Development$249kEducation$240kAnimals$230kPhilanthropy$174kHealth$104kFood & Nutrition$103kArts & Culture$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $615,025 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $582,525 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.
$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$22,500
CAMPUS LIFE BLUE MOUNTAIN YOUTH FOR CHRIST$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $391k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MT EMILY SAFE CENTER: $5k → 15%TRI-CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $11k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA: $65k → 13%WALLA WALLA YMCA: $56k → 13%SENIOR CENTER: $28k → 13%YWCA: $28k → 13%YWCA: $28k → 13%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $27k → 13%OUTREACH FOOD BANK AND THRIFT STORE: $9k → 12%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $27k → 13%HOPE STREET: $26k → 13%ST MARY'S OUTREACH: $8k → 12%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $13k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $13k → 13%WALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK: $10k → 13%WALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK: $10k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $9k → 13%YMCA: $8k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $6k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $6k → 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$744k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
28

Total granted

$1.0M
$744k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+34%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA
    4× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +86%
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA
    4× · 2017–2022 · $77k · revenue +11%
  • WW
    WALLA WALLA YMCA
    2× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BM
    BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $206k · revenue -14%
  • WW
    WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $141k · revenue +83%
  • DS
    DAYTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $53k
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
Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless

Our mission is to provide safe/secure low-barrier shelter and food to any adult in need in the Walla Walla region. Our hope is to build upon this foundation to stabilize people's lives while helping them to become self-sufficient. We do…

Housing & Shelter
2
United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley

Uniting people and resources to build thriving and resilient communities. We find every dollar we can to address these critical issues, but we are more than fundraisers. Our work is centralized around four focus areas; developing housing…

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3
Volunteers of America Western Washington

We serve and empower individuals, families, and communities. we respond to over 200,000 comprehensive human service requests for assistance each year in the following service areas: basic needs, community information & referral,…

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4
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.

Human Services
5
Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness Inc

Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.

Health
6
The Wallace Medical Concern

We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.

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7
United Way of Umatilla & Morrow Counties

United way of umatilla and morrow counties empowers individual givers to support their communities in caring for those in need.

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8
United Way of Clallam County

Our mission is to strengthen our community by helping people live safe, healthy, and productive lives.

Philanthropy
9
Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council

Swwdc's mission is to prepare and promote a skilled and adaptive workforce for a thriving economy in southwest washington. swwdc and its community partners provide job search assistance, education and training to individuals and assist…

Philanthropy
10
Blue Mountain Health Cooperative

Offer accessible mental health services to the walla walla community, while creating an innovative learning environment for future providers.

Health
11
United Way of Cowlitz County

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

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12
Washington State Community Connectors

Family-Driven Community of Support for caregivers of children with a range of behavioral health needs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla; the most unlike its peers is Blue Mountain Broadcasting Association. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 55 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH FOR CHRISTBLUE MOUNTAIN HERMISTON CAMPUS LIFE INC: $89,124 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRISTBLUE MOUNTAIN HERMISTON CA…THE SALVATION ARMY: $85,680 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHelpline: $62,210 · OtherHelplineDAYTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $52,562 · OtherDAYTON SCHOOL DISTRICTCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WALLA WALLA: $38,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WALLA WALLALITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC PACIFIC: $30,000 · OtherEFFECTUAL CONSTRUCTION: $29,545 · OtherCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $29,399 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $27,000 · OtherLillie Rice Center: $24,576 · OtherWalla Walla Public Schools: $23,340 · OtherCarnegie Picture Lab: $30,000 · Other+16 more: $158,277 · Other+16 moreYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA: $125,271 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN …WALLA WALLA YMCA: $64,230 · Human ServicesWALLA WALLA YMCACHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $59,659 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY O…Walla Walla Community Hospice: $35,285 · Human ServicesWalla Walla Community Ho…WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $28,000 · Human ServicesWALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZ…HOPE STREET: $26,000 · Human ServicesHOPE STREETWALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK: $20,000 · Human ServicesST MARYS OUTREACH INC: $16,421 · Human Services+2 more: $16,605 · Human ServicesBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $206,240 · AnimalsBLUE MOUNTAI…UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $32,924 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …United Way of Spokane County: $32,257 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …UNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $26,371 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: $19,440 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC: $19,333 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …United Way of Skagit County: $17,060 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $13,030 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …UNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $12,914 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …UNITED WAY INC: $12,210 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $140,597 · EducationWALLA WALL…SMART READING: $28,792 · EducationSMART READ…CAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA: $76,531 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentPENDLETON CHILDRENS CENTER: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC: $9,701 · Youth DevelopmentBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL: $55,139 · Food & Nutrition
Other$679,713Human Services$391,471Animals$206,240Philanthropy$185,539Education$169,389Youth Development$129,232Food & Nutrition$55,139

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $206,240 over 1y, 10% of budgetWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $140,597 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA: $125,271 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTBLUE MOUNTAIN HERMISTON CAMPUS LIFE INC: $89,124 over 6y, 13% of budgetCAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA: $76,531 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetWALLA WALLA YMCA: $64,230 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHelpline: $62,210 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $59,659 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL: $55,139 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWalla Walla Community Hospice: $35,285 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $32,924 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Spokane County: $32,257 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCarnegie Picture Lab: $30,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC PACIFIC: $30,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSMART READING: $28,792 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $28,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA: $28,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $26,371 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE STREET: $26,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLillie Rice Center: $24,576 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: $19,440 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC: $19,333 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL: $17,912 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUnited Way of Skagit County: $17,060 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetST MARYS OUTREACH INC: $16,421 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetPENDLETON CHILDRENS CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROD'S HOUSE: $14,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $13,030 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $12,914 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $12,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $11,278 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $11,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEASTERN OREGON ALCOHOLISM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC: $9,701 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON: $8,165 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc: $5,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMT EMILY SAFE CENTER: $5,405 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Blue Mountain Communi…Sherwood TrustGeorge T Welch Testam…Clara and Art Bald Tr…Mary Garner Esary Tru…Estate of Joseph L St…The Sunny Day Charita…Yancey P Winans Testa…Bonnie & Clifford Bra…Wells Charitable TrustLamb Weston Charitabl…Lumen Clarke M Willia…
Blue Mountain Community FoundationWA52.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 the Blue Mountains funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Blue Mountains. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Pendleton Childrens Center: 100% of income from government
  • Mt Emily Safe Center: 58% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Services Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Eastern Oregon Alcoholism Foundation Inc: 37% of income from government
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
  • Community Counseling Solutions: 14% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to United Way of the Blue Mountains?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Blue Mountains through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 55 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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