United Way of the Blue Mountains
Walla Walla, WA · EIN 91-0730322. Reported 45 grants totalling $547,248 to 29 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 United Way of the Blue Mountains, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 14% 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. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,792. Half of what it reported fell between $6,311 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,052 and the largest $56,230. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $75,680 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth for Christ USA Inc | Hermiston, OR | $63,124 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association | Walla Walla, WA | $56,230 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Spokane County | Spokane, WA | $32,257 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Effectual Construction | Boardman, OR | $29,545 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of King County | Seattle, WA | $26,761 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Camp Fire | Walla Walla, WA | $23,906 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornerstone Community Church | Pendleton, OR | $23,399 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Treasure Valley Inc | Boise, ID | $19,333 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Smart Reading | Portland, OR | $18,792 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Skagit County | Burlington, WA | $17,060 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties | Kennewick, WA | $15,102 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pendleton Childrens Center Inc | Pendleton, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of the Columbia- Willamette | Portland, OR | $13,030 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Snohomish County | Everett, WA | $12,914 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $12,210 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dollywood Foundation | Sevierville, TN | $11,278 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Marys Outreach Inc | Pendleton, OR | $8,921 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Council | Walla Walla, WA | $8,580 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helpline of Walla Walla | Walla Walla, WA | $8,518 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Central Washington | Yakima, WA | $8,165 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arrowleaf Consulting | Walla Walla, WA | $7,148 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kooskooskie Cabin Owners Inc | Walla Walla, WA | $6,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc | Walla Walla, WA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| College Place School District No 250 | College Place, WA | $5,749 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Home Society of Washington | Seattle, WA | $5,659 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lillie Rice Center | Walla Walla, WA | $5,576 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Womens Christian Association | Walla Walla, WA | $5,506 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mt Emily Safe Center | La Grande, OR | $5,405 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
11 of 29 (38%) 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.
- Walla Walla YMCA
SUMMER CAMP AND AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM - Lost and Found Youth Outreach
ALLOCATIONS AND DONOR DESIGNATIONS - The Salvation Army
COMMUNITY FEEDING PROGRAM - Community Council
MINI GRANT AND DONOR DESIGNATIONS - Arrowleaf Consulting
EARLY EDUCATION CONSULTING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 29 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 | 25 | $277,992 | $8,580 |
| 2022 | 14 | $136,026 | $6,525 |
| 2023 | 4 | $100,730 | $18,750 |
| 2024 | 2 | $32,500 | $16,250 |
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
46% 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 $8,792 -- 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 United Way of the Blue Mountains'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.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1134, Walla Walla, WA, 99362.
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