Washington · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES
COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,425 to it, the largest being SOURCEAMERICA ($78,369). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Columbia Industries does
Mission
To promote the vocational enhancement of persons with disablilities or other barriers to employment through customer-driven programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vocational rehabilitation and employment services:ci employment services (cies) assists people with disabilities or other barriers as they find meaningful employment in our local community. Job seekers can utilize their unique skills in positions suited to their abilities while local businesses benefit from hiring valuable, quality employees. Cies staff are experts in assisting people with gaining employment, assessing their challenges and identifying how to best promote their wide range of skills to employers. We help job seekers with disabilities and other barriers obtain and maintain employment through: job placement at a competitive wage business, job search and skills training, job development and job carving, career counseling and resume building, personalized job coaching and assessment services. In fiscal year 2025, cies helped 165 individuals enhance their vocational prospects through personal development or supporting them in their current jobs and helped 48 people attain new jobs in the community.
$830,341 spent$644,439 earned by the program40% of program spendingOn-site employment training:Columbia Industries' clients provide janitorial services and ground maintenance to the richland federal building and make cloth welding hoods for the u.s. Navy. Columbia Industries envisions a world where every person with significant disabilities can achieve their maximum employment potential. Through these programs, people with disabilities acquire skills and training, receive wages and benefits, and gain greater independence and quality of life. Columbia Industries has been providing services to the richland federal building for over 27 years. Clients clean 306,614 square feet of space inside the building. Outside they maintain over 40,000 square feet of lawn and landscaping. In addition, ci clients are responsible for litter and snow removal. Ci solutions produced 111,000 cloth welding hoods to the bremerton shipyard. Columbia Industries is proud to provide these products and services to the united states government.
$808,661 spent$964,797 earned by the program39% of program spendingCommunity center:ci community center is a safe, creative, and supervised place for adults with disabilities to find social connection, life enrichment, and community integration. The center acts as a bridge for individuals with disabilities to connect with their community, not just watch from the sidelines. Clients can participate in educational/life skills classes, exercise activities, arts and crafts, and a variety of other engaging activities. In addition to the activities in the center, Columbia Industries provides safe transportation and assistance for outings and activities in our local area. In fiscal year 2025, the community center provided over 8,000 individual sessions.
$416,507 spent$319,112 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther program services:housing - staff assist clients through the foundational community supports, supportive housing program. Clients must qualify for the program to participate. Through the program, clients receive support in finding, securing, and maintaining their housing. Through grants and donations staff can also help walk-in clients who do not qualify for the fcs program with housing needs such as rental assistance, finding housing, and related resources.
$32,211 spent$104,130 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,087,720.
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 $11M to $15M (+39%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 34% · 2022 43% · 2023 8% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Michael Novakovich
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $16k → $58k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $216k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES’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 INDUSTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 INDUSTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 55% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% — 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
40% of COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 INDUSTRIES's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Defense$963k
- General Services Administration$521k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$25k
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 INDUSTRIES
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ci Support LLC · corp_trust
- Ci - Rt LLC · corp_trust
- Ci - Pw LLC · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES: 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 INDUSTRIES?
- COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,425 to it, the largest being SOURCEAMERICA ($78,369). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $285,425 in grants to COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES?
- SOURCEAMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $78,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA INDUSTRIES 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.
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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 15 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