Columbia Basin Foundation
Ephrata, WA · EIN 91-1733104. Reported 110 grants totalling $3,953,418 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Columbia Basin Foundation, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 29% 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.
- How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,472 and $25,703; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $1,126,588. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ncw Tech Alliance | Wenatchee, WA | $1,158,250 | 12 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Salt Lake City, UT | $1,126,588 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Almira School District | Almira, WA | $145,260 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Quincy | Quincy, WA | $94,644 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Grant County Sheriffs Office | Moses Lake, WA | $87,466 | 4 | 1 | 2021 |
| Public Hospital District 4 of Grant County | Soap Lake, WA | $85,589 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Big Bend Community College Foundation | Moses Lake, WA | $76,055 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Moses Lake Christian Academy | Moses Lake, WA | $51,701 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chamber Foundation | Fargo, ND | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Church of Ephrata | Ephrata, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marion Technical College Foundation Inc | Marion, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montana Chamber Foundation | Helena, MT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Riverside County Works | Riverside, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Carolina Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation | Columbia, SC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way Fox Cities Inc | Menasha, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ephrata Senior Center Incorporated | Ephrata, WA | $49,732 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Masquers of Grant County | Soap Lake, WA | $43,767 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington State University | Renton, WA | $40,153 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Agriculture and Forestry Education Foundation | Spokane, WA | $38,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spokane III Foursquare Church | Spokane, WA | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Union Gospel Mission Association of Spokane | Spokane, WA | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Quincy Chamber of Commerce | Quincy, WA | $31,883 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Quincy Booster Club Inc | Quincy, WA | $30,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grant County Historical Society | Ephrata, WA | $30,319 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Coulee City Assembly of God | Coulee City, WA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Royal City Friends of the Library | Royal City, WA | $29,806 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camp Fire | Walla Walla, WA | $29,442 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church of Ephrata | Ephrata, WA | $29,141 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Town of Coulee City Maintenance Dept | Coulee City, WA | $28,849 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Coulee City Senior Citizens | Coulee City, WA | $25,152 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fair Chance Learning Inc | Newmarket, ON | $21,470 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grant County Treasurer | Ephrata, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sharp County Courthouse | Ash Flat, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Inland Northwest | Spokane, WA | $15,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grant County Fire District #7 | Ephrata, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grant County Sheriffs Office | Ephrata, WA | $14,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wahluke School District No 73 | Mattawa, WA | $13,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Douglas Grant Lincoln & Okanogan Counties Public Hospital Dist 6 | Grand Coulee, WA | $13,295 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dollywood Foundation | Sevierville, TN | $12,836 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Columbia Basin | Moses Lake, WA | $11,734 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ephrata Consolidated Food Bank | Ephrata, WA | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wags N Whiskers | Ephrata, WA | $11,321 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Run the Dam | Electric City, WA | $11,133 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ncesd | Wenatchee, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shiloh Cemetery | Amity, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington State High School Rodeo Association Inc | Ephrata, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of Coulee City Maintenance Dept | Coulee City, WA | $9,179 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wenatchee Valley Symphony Assoc Inc | Wenatchee, WA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cloudview | Ephrata, WA | $7,740 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ncw Libraries | Wenatchee, WA | $6,739 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crossroads Resource Center | Moses Lake, WA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Washington University Foundation | Ellensburg, WA | $5,337 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of North Central Washington | Wenatchee, WA | $5,337 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Rose of Lima Catholic School | Ephrata, WA | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
22 of 54 (41%) 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.
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.
- Greater Wenatchee Area Technology Alliance
EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT FOR YOUTH - City of Quincy
QUINCY BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT - Mckay Healthcare and Rehab
PATIENT BUS, LAUNDRY FACILITY, AND OUTDOOR UPGRADES - New Hope
SUPPORT FOR NEW HOPE DOMESTIC ABUSE TREATMENT PROJECTS - Washington State University
REMOTE WORKER TRAINING OUTREACH - Grant County Sheriffs Office
TRAFFIC SAFETY TASK FORCE FUND FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMUNITY OUTREACH
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 54 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 20 | $710,690 | $11,108 |
| 2022 | 32 | $1,175,153 | $10,164 |
| 2023 | 33 | $692,335 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $1,375,240 | $10,000 |
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
62% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- 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 Columbia Basin Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 101 Basin Street Nw, Ephrata, WA, 98823.
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