Oregon · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES
COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,313,527 to it, the largest being CAREOREGON INC ($2,006,143). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $257M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $237M
What Columbia Lutheran Charities does
Mission
The mission of columbia memorial hospital is to provide excellence, leadership, and compassion in the enhancement of health for those we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mission statement: the mission of columbia memorial hospital is to provide excellence, leadership, and compassion in the enhancement of health for those we serve. Utilization statistices: year ending 2024 available beds: 25 admissions: 1,509 patient days: 4,222 observations: 877 average length of stay (in days): 3.03 occupancy rate: 46.27% deliveries: 278 emergency room visits: 16,934 urgent care visits: 21,093 outpatient visits (net of er): 296,863 surgical cases: 3,750 planetree designation the hospital has adopted a philosophy of providing patient-centered care throughout its facilities. In 2000, the hospital joined an organization called planetree, inc ("planetree") as an affiliate member. Planetree partners with healthcare organizations around the world to develop and advance patient centered approaches to care. In 2013, the hospital became only the second hospital in oregon to achieve the prestigious planetree designation status. Planetree-designation represents the highest level of achievement in patient/person-centered care based on evidence and standards, according to planetree. Planetree-designated hospitals must demonstrate their commitment and successful adoption of…
$161,023,549 spentof which $173,720 as grants$243,240,528 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $161,023,549.
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 $283M to $535M (+89%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Erik Thorsen
CEO
Board chair
James Heilman Md
Quality oversight committe chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $2.0M.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $2.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbia Memorial Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES’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 LUTHERAN CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LUTHERAN CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 76% · 2022 83% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
98% of COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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 LUTHERAN CHARITIES has grown faster than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$899k
- Department of Agriculture$113k
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 LUTHERAN CHARITIES
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Columbia Memorial Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Columbia Memorial Hospital Auxiliary · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES: 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 LUTHERAN CHARITIES?
- COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,313,527 to it, the largest being CAREOREGON INC ($2,006,143). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,313,527 in grants to COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES?
- CAREOREGON INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,006,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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