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THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION

THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,137,335 to it, the largest being ORIN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,950,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$5.1M
Net assets
$11M
17/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What The Chehalis Foundation does

Mission

To promote the interests of the chehalis community through support for education, public works, and cultural and charitable pursuits.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Renovation of wf west high school baseball field

    $1,425,376 spentof which $1,425,376 as grants
    43% of program spending

  2. Excellence in education - funding programs to improve student achievement

    $1,241,218 spentof which $1,240,878 as grants
    37% of program spending

  3. Funding chehalis school district science, technology, engineering and math (stem) programs

    $192,153 spentof which $190,824 as grants
    6% of program spending

  4. Funding college scholarships for chehalis school district students.funding facilities improvements and other support for sports and career and technical education programs in the chehalis school district.funding various city projects including ballfields and park maintenance and improvements.

    $464,979 spentof which $453,622 as grants
    14% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,323,726.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 51 ($956k) Expenses 67 ($1.4M) Net assets 70 ($973k)2021 Revenue 316 ($5.9M) Expenses 54 ($1.1M) Net assets 429 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 229 ($4.3M) Expenses 58 ($1.2M) Net assets 597 ($8.3M)2023 Revenue 180 ($3.3M) Expenses 65 ($1.3M) Net assets 774 ($11M)2024 Revenue 149 ($2.8M) Expenses 179 ($3.7M) Net assets 764 ($11M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (149)Expenses (179)Net assets (764)Peer revenue range

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 $973k to $6.0M (+517%).

$1.4M
$973k
$6.0M
$8.4M
$11M
$11M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$185k
’19
−$410k
’20
$4.8M
’21
$3.1M
’22
$2.0M
’23
−$886k
’24
8.2
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed151415151415
Joined·+4+3+4+1+2
No longer listed·52421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $276k → $994k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Youth Initiative Fundunclassified
$164k
funders
6
6
7
7
7
8
12
7
3
2

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $2.5M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest R & M Ingwersen Tua the Chehalis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE CHEHALIS 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

THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

25% 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 THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION.

57%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 55% · 2019 35% · 2020 63% · 2021 61% · 2022 81% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.

“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

58% of THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
WY
VA
MD
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $398k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like THE CHEHALIS 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

Chehalis Lodge #1109 Lo of Moose Inc78%Experience Chehalis77%Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force76%Centralia Community Foundation76%Community Foundation of Ncw74%Puyallup Schools Foundation74%Chehalis Tribal Loan Fund74%Chelan-Douglas Land Trust73%

Nationally

Chehalis Lodge #1109 Lo of Moose Inc78%Experience Chehalis77%The Cheshire Project77%Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force76%Centralia Community Foundation76%Les Cheneaux Education Foundation76%Anschei Chesed Fund Inc76%The Chana School Foundation Gary Stauffer76%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Wf & Be West Educ & Coffman Jf Ed Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION?
THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,137,335 to it, the largest being ORIN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,950,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $5,137,335 in grants to THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION?
ORIN SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CHEHALIS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 21 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