Southwest Washington Regional Health
Vancouver, WA · EIN 46-2164971. Reported 94 grants totalling $14.5M to 46 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 Southwest Washington Regional Health, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in health care (NTEE E01).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 75% 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 $113,484. Half of what it reported fell between $33,057 and $218,289; the smallest was $9,190 and the largest $728,626. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Gorge Action Programs | Bingen, WA | $1,889,581 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Share | Vancouver, WA | $885,029 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Housing Authority of the City of Vancouver Washington | Vancouver, WA | $825,906 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lifeline Connections | Vancover, WA | $808,739 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Community Services Northwest | Tacoma, WA | $758,239 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sea Mar Community Health Centers | Seattle, WA | $722,423 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Outsidersinn | Vancouver, WA | $687,492 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youth and Family Link | Longview, WA | $551,848 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| YWCA Clark County | Vancouver, WA | $544,912 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Skamania County Community Health | Stevenson, WA | $513,696 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Klickitat Valley Health Memorial Foundation | Goldendale, WA | $496,991 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation for Southwest Washington | Vancouver, WA | $465,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Next Door Inc | Hood River, OR | $462,144 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Clark County Latino Youth | Vancouver, WA | $405,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia River Mental Health Services | Vancouver, WA | $403,390 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue | Ridgefield, WA | $397,662 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Klickitat Valley Health | Goldendale, WA | $347,891 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vancouver Housing Authority | Vancouver, WA | $313,933 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Council for the Homeless | Vancouver, WA | $294,643 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Skyline Foundation C/O Skyline Hospital | White Salmon, WA | $267,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Klickitat County Public Hospital District No 1 | Goldendale, WA | $267,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Odyssey World Internationaleducation Services | Vancouver, WA | $255,048 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Peace Health | Vancouver, WA | $222,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Childrens Home Society of Washington | Seattle, WA | $213,407 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cultureseed | White Salmon, WA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridgeview Housing | Vancouver, WA | $197,116 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Clark County Latino Youth Conference | Vancouver, WA | $180,433 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| White Salmon Valley School District | White Salmon, WA | $151,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ideal Options Pllc | Pasco, WA | $138,562 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child and Adolescent Clinic | Vancouver, WA | $128,819 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fourth Plain Forward | Vancouver, WA | $102,812 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Camas | Vancouver, WA | $77,482 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridgeview Resource Center | Vancouver, WA | $57,861 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southwest Washington Recovery Coalition | Omak, WA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cascade AIDS Project | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emplower Family Focused Services | Vancouver, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Empower Family Focused Services | Vancouver, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medical Teams International | Tigard, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Play Frontier | Carson, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Foundation Wa | Vancouver, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clark Count Fire District 3 | Brush Prairie, WA | $24,912 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Haps | Omak, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Haps | Omak, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vancouver School Dist No 37 Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child and Adolescent Clinic | Longview, WA | $19,530 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
25 of 46 (54%) 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.
- Washington Gorge Action Programs
MEDICAID TRANSFORMATION PROJECT PATHWAYS & COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECT - Vancouver Housing Authority
MEDICAID TRANSFORMATION PROJECT PATHWAYS - Lifeline Connections
MEDICAID TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS - Clark County Latino Youth
MEDICAID TRANSFORMATION; COVID-19 RESPONSE - Youth and Family Link
MEDICAID TRANSFORMATION MCAW / COMAGINE - Lutheran Community Services Northwest
MEDICAID TRANSFORMATION PROJECT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 46 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 | 12 | $1,454,092 | $119,598 |
| 2022 | 25 | $2,800,364 | $81,800 |
| 2023 | 32 | $5,997,442 | $155,128 |
| 2024 | 25 | $4,279,303 | $102,812 |
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
96% 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 $113,484 -- 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 Southwest Washington Regional Health'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 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 311 W 11TH St B, Vancouver, WA, 98660.
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