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Coastal Harvest

Hoquiam, WA · EIN 94-3252669. Reported 160 grants totalling $13.7M to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

51organizations funded
$60,523median reported grant
$13.7Mgranted, 2020-2023
92%of grantees funded again the next year
8%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Coastal Harvest, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 92% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $60,523. Half of what it reported fell between $34,143 and $118,330; the smallest was $10,690 and the largest $363,821. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
40 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
46 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
41 grants
$250,000 Or More
7 grants

160 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $13.7M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
East Grays Harbor County Food BankElma, WA$1,140,008442023
Aberdeen Food BankCosmopolis, WA$1,072,401442023
Lewis County Food Bank CoalitionChehalis, WA$788,598332022
Hoquiam Food and Clothing BankHoquiam, WA$782,708442023
Ocean Park Food BankOcean Park, WA$676,650442023
Galilean Lutheran ChurchOcean Shores, WA$657,767442023
South Beach Christian OutreachWestport, WA$610,218442023
The Salvation ArmyHonolulu, HI$592,139442023
Copalis Church Community Food BankCopalis Beach, WA$536,398442023
North Pacific County Food BankRaymond, WA$510,393442023
Society of St Vincent De Paul St Mary Conference Seaview WaSeaview, WA$438,747442023
Community Food PantryBelfair, WA$390,171442023
Montesano Food BankMontesano, WA$373,930442023
Quinault Food BankAmanda Park, WA$371,173442023
United States Catholic ConferenceWashington, DC$312,588442023
South Beach Food BankWestport, WA$307,361442023
Legacy Community OutreachSouth Bend, WA$295,460442023
Adventist Community Services of Grays HarborHoquiam, WA$289,985442023
Friends of the Chinook SchoolChinook, WA$272,942442023
Humptulips Food BankHumptulips, WA$258,810442023
Mccleary Food BankMccleary, WA$236,859442023
Set Free Christian FellowshipElma, WA$231,076332022
Matlock Community ChurchElma, WA$204,427442023
Grays Harbor Foursquare ChurchAberdeen, WA$201,092442023
Hood Canal Food BankHoodsport, WA$199,596442023
Rochester Organization of FamiliesRochester, WA$184,915442023
Saints Pantry Food BankShelton, WA$181,708442023
His Supper TableOcean Park, WA$142,718442023
Malone Assembly of GodElma, WA$140,256332022
West End Food PantryRosburg, WA$134,458442023
Oakville Food BankWinlock, WA$129,814442023
Northwest Baptist ConventionVancouver, WA$121,153442023
North Mason Coalition of Churches and CommunityBelfair, WA$116,474442023
North River Food BankCosmopolis, WA$108,221442023
Bay Center Food BankBay Center, WA$95,099442023
Shoalwater TribeTokeland, WA$94,654332022
Squaxin TribeShelton, WA$63,872332022
Wahkiakum Helping HandCathlamet, WA$57,604222021
The General Council of the Assemblies of GodSpringfield, MO$39,241112023
Grays Harbor College Foundation IncAberdeen, WA$38,185112023
The Chinook Indian Nation Food BankChinook, WA$35,162112023
Hoquiam Senior Citizen CenterHoquiam, WA$32,509222021
Shoalwater Food Bank Shoalwater TribeTokeland, WA$29,301112023
Queets Food Bank Quinault TribeForks, WA$27,811222022
Tokeland Food BankTokeland, WA$24,047112023
Squaxin Tribal Food BankShelton, WA$22,731112023
Harbor Landing Food Pantry - GhccAberdeen, WA$22,090112020
Queets Food BankForks, WA$21,828112023
Queets Food Bank Quinalt TribeForks, WA$20,029112021
Cielo ProgramsShelton, WA$16,405112023
Aberdeen Senior Citizen CenterCosmopolis, WA$10,756112020

40 of 51 (78%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 7 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Food & Nutrition
10 orgs
Human Services
8 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Religion
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202042$4,049,612$70,705
202140$3,731,275$67,517
202238$2,621,738$47,494
202340$3,259,913$60,780

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

93% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Washington
$12.7M
Hawaii
$592K
District of Columbia
$313K
Missouri
$39K

Down to the city

Elma, WA
$1.7M
Cosmopolis, WA
$1.2M
Hoquiam, WA
$1.1M
Westport, WA
$918K
Ocean Park, WA
$819K
Chehalis, WA
$789K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Food Lifeline13 shared recipientsGrays Harbor Community Foundation7 shared recipientsNorthwest Harvest Emm6 shared recipientsCommunity Action Council of Lewis5 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of South Puget4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $60,523 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Coastal Harvest's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 40 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 616, Hoquiam, WA, 98550.

EIN 94-3252669 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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