· Public charity
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
At United Way of the Columbia-Willamette (UWCW), we envision an Oregon and Southwest Washington where every child and family - regardless of geography, race, or family incomehas a stable foundation and access to the resources and support necessary to thrive.Grounded in the needs and lived experiences of people in our region, we believe…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 133 grants below total $15,597,633 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,783,938 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,186,305 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $9.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Multnomah County (DCHS) | $1,565,638 |
| Central City Concern | $1,368,516 |
| Washington County HHS | $1,297,054 |
| New Narrative | $824,489 |
| Transition Projects Inc | $806,604 |
| Do Good Multnomah | $804,049 |
| Mental Health Association of Portland | $528,108 |
| Oregon Community Health Workers Association | $499,111 |
| The Salvation Army a California Corporation | $428,462 |
| Our Just Future | $418,242 |
| New Avenues for Youth | $372,890 |
| All Good Northwest | $349,257 |
| Outside In | $326,464 |
| El Programa Hispano Catolico | $293,047 |
| The Urban League of Portland | $238,401 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
194 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +138%
Latino Network8× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +306%
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +114%
Funded once
Mental Health Association of Oregonone grant, 2024 · $407k · revenue +13%- MMHCCone grant, 2017 · $186k
- DHDAVID'S HARP 930771871graduatedone grant, 2022 · $166k · revenue +137%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
See schedule oneighborhood partnerships, inc. (np or the organization) is an oregon non-profit corporation founded in 1989 whose mission is to help create a better oregon, one in which we all have access to opportunity, stability, and what…
Center for intercultural organizing dba unite oregon is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through education, civic engagement, community organizing and…
Housing oregon strengthens the collective voice and capacity of mission-driven organizations that share a commitment to housing justice. through our statewide network, we build the affordable housing sector by offering education, resource…
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
To promote economic and social advancement of farmworkers and disadvantaged individuals through the provision of education, training, advocacy and services that enhance self-sufficiency.
Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.
In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
323 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 323 of the 389 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DO GOOD MULTNOMAH ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW NARRATIVE ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE ↗
- Who funds 211INFO ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds Portland Rotary Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds SUNSTONE WAY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JUBITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of Portland ↗
- Who funds Labors Community Service Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon ↗
- Who funds HOME FORWARD DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EL PROGRAMA HISPANO CATOLICO ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of Oregon ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST WYOMING ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Autzen Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization United Way of the Columbia-Willamette funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Alliance of Tenants — 100% of income from government
- Home Forward Development Enterprises Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
- Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
- Community Action Organization — 67% of income from government
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
- 211INFO — 60% of income from government
- Worksystems Inc — 55% of income from government
- Oregon Council for the Humanities — 55% of income from government
- Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Reap Inc — 46% of income from government
- Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
- Oregon Community Health Workers Assoc — 45% of income from government
- Oregon Latino Health Coalition — 43% of income from government
- Raices de Bienestar — 41% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Oregon — 41% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Living Islands Non-Profit — 33% of income from government
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Samoa Pacific Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
- The Marie Equi Institute — 26% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Community Partners for Affordable Housing — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Stone Soup Pdx — 20% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest Inc — 16% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- El Programa Hispano Catolico — 13% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
- Transcending Hope — 12% of income from government
- Oregon Law Center — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Future Prairie — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center — 9% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- Familias en Accion — 8% of income from government
- Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- New Narrative — 6% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
- Miracle Theatre Group — 6% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Cascadia Health — 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Project Access Now — 2% of income from government
- Trash for Peace — 2% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Portland — 2% of income from government
- Regional Arts & Culture Council — 1% of income from government
- Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Do Good Multnomah — 0% of income from government
- Innovative Housing Inc — 0% of income from government
- David's Harp 930771871 — 0% of income from government
- Cultivate Initiatives — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.