Washington · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,720,618 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($250,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Columbia Basin College Foundation does
Mission
To acquire and manage funds to support students, scholarships, projects, and activities at columbia basin college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Columbia Basin College Foundation provides support to cbc departments and faculty. Financial assistance is given for program equipment, capital improvements, funding conference attendance and skills competitions, and organization special events. During the 2024-2025 academic year, the foundation provided more than 765,000 in support for cbc programs, departments, and faculty.
$765,589 spentof which $765,589 as grants37% of program spendingThe Columbia Basin College Foundation supports students attending columbia basin college through a comprehensive scholarship program. Student applications are reviewed by a committee of volunteers and are awarded to match donor interests with student need. During the 2024-2025 academic year, the foundation awarded 913 scholarships to qualified individuals.
$1,160,563 spentof which $1,160,563 as grants55% of program spendingThe Columbia Basin College Foundation supports student achievement at columbia basin college by providing additional support for wrap-around resources. These student support programs were developed to assist students with the non-academic challenges that they encounter while attending columbia basin college. Programs include emergency funding, the food pantry and support through the resource and veterans center.
$165,374 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,091,526.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $25M (−16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
82% of COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Melda Velasquez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $71k → $185k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.9M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kadlec Regional Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 66% · 2019 44% · 2020 64% · 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $615k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Columbia Basin College · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,720,618 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($250,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,720,618 in grants to COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing