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· Public charity

United Way of the Columbia Gorge

To help care for the people of the columbia river gorge by identifying human service needs, raising funds, distributing and coordinating resources,promoting volunteerism, and helping to solve community problems.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$467kHuman Services$454kCrime & Legal$256kYouth Development$176kPublic Benefit$115kEducation$113kAnimals$62kEnvironment$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $311,814, the rows itemized in this filing. The $354,585 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,771 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $278k
$17,403
Median grant
2
States reached
$779k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA GORGE FOOD BANK$28,856
WAGAP PROGRAMS$27,370
SAFESPACE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$24,821
COLUMBIA GORGE CASA$24,495
SKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DVSA$21,275
HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE$21,112
THE DALLES COMMUNITY BACKPACK PROGRAM$17,729
FISH FOOD BANK$17,729
THE DALLES MEALS ON WHEELS$17,729
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER$17,403
SIX RIVERS RESOLUTION CENTER$14,183
KLICKITAT COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES$12,880
HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER$10,963
THE DALLES FARMERS MARKET$10,638
CULTURE SEED$10,638
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 (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOM VIOL: $12k → 10%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $11k → 10%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $9k → 10%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $6k → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 34 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
10

Total granted

$1.7M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+339%

Still filing today

41%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HH
    HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +88%
  • YE
    YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +396%
  • CG
    COLUMBIA GORGE CASA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • WF
    WGAP FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • BP
    BACK PACKS 4 KIDS
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • HV
    HRC VETERAN SERVICE OFFICE
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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
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
2
Council On Aging & Human Services

Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.

Human Services
3
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
4
Malheur County Child Development Center

Head start & other children services

Education
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
Westside Community Action Council

Provide service to assist individuals and families with food utility assistance and collaborate with other community agencies.

Community Improvement
7
Columbia Children's Center Inc

To provide full day care services for children of any race ranging from 6 weeks to 6 years old. migrant children receive preference. services include education, meals, and medical attention.

Human Services
8
Lasalle County Childrens Advocacy Center

Advocacy and care of physically and sexually abused children in lasalle county. we work with the court system in determining the best placement for children.

Crime & Legal
9
Oregon Daycare Inc

Daycare for children ages 2 1/2 to 9, including a four year old Kindergarten program.

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10
Washington County Senior Citizens

Providing meals to the senior citizens at the meal site and with home deliveries.

Human Services
11
West Contra Costa County Meals On Wheels

Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…

Food & Nutrition
12
Highland Food Resources Inc

To provide child care food programs participants with three healthy meals a day. the program prov

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Columbia Childrens Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Back Pack for Kids. 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

19 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. 19 of the 47 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $117,146 · OtherHELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INCSKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DVSA: $114,909 · OtherSKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DVSAKLICKITAT COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $92,949 · OtherKLICKITAT COUNTY SENIOR SERVICESSOUTH WASCO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $68,674 · OtherSOUTH WASCO YOUTH PROGRAMS INCWAGAP PROGRAMS: $66,352 · OtherWAGAP PROGRAMSCASA: $64,040 · OtherSAFESPACE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $63,836 · OtherCOLUMBIA GORGE FOOD BANK: $62,016 · OtherFISH: $61,600 · OtherHAVEN: $60,700 · OtherWAGAP FOOD BANK: $59,030 · OtherHOOD RIVER WARMING SHELTER: $58,220 · OtherHOOD RIVER COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $57,550 · OtherSIX RIVERS RESOLUTION CENTER: $42,002 · Other+18 more: $250,069 · Other+18 moreTHE DALLES MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $57,528 · Food & NutritionTHE DALLES M…FISH Food Bank: $51,528 · Food & NutritionFISH Food Ba…MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $48,650 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…THE DALLES FARMERS MARKET INC: $41,017 · Food & NutritionTHE DALLES F…COLUMBIA GORGE CASA: $57,814 · Crime & LegalCOLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $50,700 · Crime & LegalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER: $96,847 · Youth DevelopmentSMART READING: $40,000 · EducationMID-COLUMBIA CHILDRENS COUNCIL INC: $33,600 · EducationWHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,660 · EducationPLAY FRONTIER: $5,319 · EducationBACK PACK FOR KIDS: $52,914 · PhilanthropyHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $25,177 · Human ServicesSKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $12,000 · Human ServicesCULTURESEED INC: $35,453 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,239,093Food & Nutrition$198,723Crime & Legal$108,514Youth Development$96,847Education$88,579Philanthropy$52,914Human Services$37,177Arts & Culture$35,453

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $117,146 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER: $96,847 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTH WASCO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $68,674 over 6y, 21% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE CASA: $57,814 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetTHE DALLES MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $57,528 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFISH Food Bank: $51,528 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $50,700 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $48,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DALLES FARMERS MARKET INC: $41,017 over 4y, 17% of budgetSMART READING: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCULTURESEED INC: $35,453 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMID-COLUMBIA CHILDRENS COUNCIL INC: $33,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $25,177 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW HOPE FARMS: $17,151 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $12,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMid-Columbia Community Action Council: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH WASCO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE CASA ↗
  • Who funds THE DALLES MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds BACK PACK FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds FISH Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DALLES FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
  • Who funds SMART READING ↗
  • Who funds CULTURESEED INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-COLUMBIA CHILDRENS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds SKAMANIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗

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.

Greenfish FoundationThe Oregon Community …Providence Health & S…The Roundhouse Founda…The Ford Family Found…McGeer Family Foundat…Gorge Community Found…Meyer Memorial TrustColumbia Gorge Health…First Interstate Banc…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Greenfish FoundationOR22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greenfish Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · McGeer Family Foundation · Gorge Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Columbia Gorge Health Council · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Mid-Columbia Childrens Council Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Youth Empowerment Shelter: 65% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Against Violence Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Mid-Columbia Community Action Council: 43% of income from government
  • Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center: 12% of income from government
  • The Dalles Meals On Wheels Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Columbia Gorge Casa: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 47 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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