· Private foundation
Vancouver Methodist Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| S Congo Diocese co Trust Merchant B | $93,650 |
| Vancouver First United Methodist Ch | $71,236 |
| Scholoarships paid under 5000 each | $40,500 |
| Other grants paid under 5000 each | $35,694 |
| Student - Washington State Universi | $20,000 |
| Clark College Foundation | $9,000 |
| Columbia Gardens | $8,190 |
| Ocean Park Retreat Ctr | $7,200 |
| Vancouver Schools Foundation | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +221% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +143%
- VSVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +259%
COUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS3× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +221%
Funded once
- TMTrust Merchant Bank South Congo Dioone grant, 2017 · $80k
- NCNational Christian Foundationone grant, 2017 · $60k
- BOBoard of Camping Retreat Ministriesone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 225 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Firstenburg Foundation · Columbia Community Credit Union · Building Changes · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vancouver Methodist Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vancouver Methodist Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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