Washington · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION
COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,958,462 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,168,447). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Columbia Basin Foundation does
Mission
Columbia Basin Foundation is a community foundation with a collection of permanent charitable funds supported by a wide range of donors for the purpose of strengthening the community for the benefit of all citizens. The foundation is committed to: assist donors to create charitable funds and to distribute proceeds therefrom in accordance with donor's intents, be a responsible steward of those resources, use discretionary grant funds wisely to meet community needs, and be a constructive catalyst in the philanthropic community to identify problems and opportunities, and to shape effective responses to them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, 147 grants and/or sponsorships were awarded to organizations. Grants are given to qualified, tax-exempt nonprofit organizations for work directly benefiting residents of the columbia basin. Grants are given to those organizations that place a priority on projects that help build the community and help strengthen community connections, and benefit a broad segment of the local population.
$2,082,905 spentof which $673,027 as grants90% of program spendingIn 2025, 143 scholarships were awarded. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on merit, school participation, grade point average, and/or need. The scholarship funds are used to aid the individual in obtaining a higher education.
$236,075 spentof which $236,075 as grants10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,318,980.
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 2023 to 2024, from $16M to $18M (+19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Corinne Isaak
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $602k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBIA BASIN 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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 93% · 2022 69% · 2023 71% — 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
80% of COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
75% of COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $735k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLUMBIA BASIN 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
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,958,462 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,168,447). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,958,462 in grants to COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA BASIN FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,168,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA BASIN 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 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing