Washington · Nonprofit
Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards
Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,247 to it, the largest being DEACON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Skamania Economic Development Councillocal
- The Burning Foundationportfolio match
- Forterra Nwportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $34.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Gorge Refuge Stewards’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 Gorge Refuge Stewards leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Skamania Economic Development CouncillocalWA · funds 28 organizations near you
- The Burning Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forterra Nwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wildlife Support Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenfish Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Earth Day Oregonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Northwest Fund for the Environmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tareen Filgas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wild Salmon Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Icicle Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $385k on record.
- Department of the Interior$385k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
100%
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 Gorge Refuge Stewards: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards?
- Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,247 to it, the largest being DEACON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($11,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,247 in grants to Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards?
- DEACON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing