Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation

Analysis

Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in The Dalles, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 June 2023, Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation reported income of $421k and spending of $358k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $292k to $421k (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 167%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Margaret E Moul Foundation ($421k), The CDM Foundation ($421k) and Farm Neck Foundation Inc ($420k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.0m.