Columbia Gorge Health Council

Analysis

Columbia Gorge Health Council is a registered charity in United States, based in The Dalles, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbia Gorge Health Council reported income of $4.8m and spending of $5.9m, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $4.8m (+297%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 244%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Columbia Gorge Health Council sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Central Islip-Hauppauge Volunteer Ambulance Inc ($4.8m), Santa Fe Mountain Center Inc ($4.8m) and Glaucoma Foundation Inc ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 7.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $102k (1.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $670k. At year end it held assets of $7.7m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $6.5m.