Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS
WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,102,093 to it, the largest being SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON REGIONAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ($2,472,639). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Washington Gorge Action Programs does
Mission
Washington Gorge Action Programs is a multipurpose human service organization dedicated to helping individuals, families, and communities address basic human needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing Assistance Programs There are four types of housing assistance programs offered by WAGAP: Emergency Shelter, Supportive Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, and Turning Point Rapid Re-housing. The Emergency Shelter Program offers homeless individuals and families a 3 to 90 day stay. Case management and short term goals assist with locating permanent housing. There are shelters in Bingen 5 rooms (Klickitat County) and Stevenson 5 rooms (Skamania County). Supportive Housing is a two-year housing program available to qualified homeless persons. Permanent Supportive Housing is permanent housing for those with some type of disability. Case management and other assistance is available upon tenant request. This project is located in Bingen 8 units, and scattered throughout Klickitat and Skamania counties. In this program, the client holds the contract with the landlord so that at the end of the program they can stay in their unit and WAGAP steps back. Turning Point Rapid Re-housing is for unaccompanied youth ages 18-24 and families with children. Similar to Permanent Supportive Housing it is a two year program where the client holds the lease and pays 30% of their income…
$2,603,429 spent34% of program spendingFood and Nutrition WAGAP is the lead organization and distribution center for the food banks in Klickitat and Skamania counties. Low-income families are eligible for a food box once a month. The food in a box varies but generally there is enough for three to twelve nutritionally balanced meals depending on the size of the family.
$2,075,264 spent27% of program spendingFamily Services This program includes crime victim services (assistance for victims of general crime), domestic violence & sexual assault client services along with community outreach and education. Within this program there are services for individuals and families that help them obtain services and supports based on individual preferences, needs, and capabilities. Also WAGAP has a youth center within this program. The youth center offers children between the ages of six and seventeen, a safe, supervised, and substance free place to hang out. It is an educational, recreational program for at-risk youth providing life skills training, interaction with positive adult role models and an opportunity to bond with the community.
$929,028 spent12% of program spendingHome Energy Assistance - During the winter months, low-income individuals and families can be helped with heating their homes through this program.
$750,088 spent10% of program spendingPathways HealthConnect Pathways HealthConnect is a free WAGAP program that helps community members connect to the services and support they need to be healthy. Participants are paired with an experienced Community Health Worker to access medical, dental, or mental health care, transportation, substance abuse treatment, childcare and parenting education, financial help and other essential services.
$620,028 spent8% of program spendingCommunity Services & Emergency Services (listed as Block Grant/Other on the statement of functional expenses) The goals of community services programs are to reduce the negative impact of poverty on individuals, families and communities. These programs help enhance the health and vigor of our communities along with assuring a brighter future for children. Since 2005 Washington Gorge Action Programs has operated a thrift store called Second Hand Rose. The goal of Second Hand Rose is to become a community resource by providing employment training opportunities in retail sales; also to provide low and mid-income families with affordable items. This new program fills a need not previously met in the community. Emergency Services programs provide eligible individuals and families rental assistance, emergency food boxes, and emergency energy assistance. This program manages clients cash benefits to assure basic needs housing, childcare and food. Referrals to other crisis intervention and emergency service programs are also available.
$602,906 spent8% of program spendingWAGAPs civic engagement team works to increase community involvement in decision-making processes. The goal is to make sure that decision-making is representative ofall people who live in the Gorge, including low-income residents. WAGAPs civic engagement activities are non-political and are not associated with any political parties. Civic engagement programs include voter registration events where community members can register to vote, update their voter records, and check their voter status. WAGAP believes that having more people vote in an informed way helps communities make better decisions.
$110,732 spent1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,691,475.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+68%).
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: 2018 59% · 2019 63% · 2020 64% · 2021 66% · 2022 75% · 2023 80% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $18k → $1.0M.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 95% · 2020 69% · 2021 68% · 2022 61% · 2023 71% — 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
33% of WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
93% of WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $288k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
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 WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS?
- WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS (Washington) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,102,093 to it, the largest being SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON REGIONAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ($2,472,639). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,102,093 in grants to WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS?
- SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON REGIONAL HEALTH ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,472,639 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 37 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