Oregon · Nonprofit
LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER
LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,570 to it, the largest being THE COLLINS FOUNDATION ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $183k
What Lower Columbia Q Center does
Mission
The LCQC is a safe and welcoming resource and peer support service for the LGBTQ community, friends, family, and allies of the Lower Columbia Region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pride celebration: awareness for programs and resources offered to the lower Columbia region.
$19,817 spent30% of program spendingOutreach & Education: promote awareness and offer support through groups, activities, and resources.
$45,631 spentof which $14,972 as grants69% of program spendingHealthcare: offer support to LGBTQ individuals that need financial assistance with healthcare related expenses.
$904 spentof which $904 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,352.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $127k to $183k (+44%).
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.
96% of LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jenni Newton
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $45k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER’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
LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER: 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 LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER?
- LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,570 to it, the largest being THE COLLINS FOUNDATION ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $150,570 in grants to LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER?
- THE COLLINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWER COLUMBIA Q CENTER 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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