Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation
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About Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation
The Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation made a single, large strategic grant focused on expanding equitable access to homeownership by funding a national community development intermediary. Their giving in this dataset targets barriers to homeownership and places an explicit emphasis on advancing equity in housing for underserved communities. This suggests the foundation uses concentrated investments through established intermediaries to leverage broader community development impact.
Focus Areas
Programs to remove barriers to homeownership for underserved householdsEquitable mortgage lending and down-payment assistance initiativesNeighborhood stabilization and affordable housing developmentCapacity-building for community development organizations and intermediaries
Who They Fund
under-resourced / marginalized high school studentsBIPOC entrepreneurs and small business ownerswomen and minority entrepreneurstribal members and Native communities
About Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation
A $500,000 grant to Local Initiatives Support Corporation set the tone for Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation’s recent giving: equity-centered housing work delivered through established intermediaries. The foundation’s grant record shows a clear emphasis on removing barriers to homeownership, alongside support for affordable housing, neighborhood stabilization, and housing-related capacity building. That approach appears in multiple grants tied to mortgage access, down-payment assistance, resident services, and housing support. The foundation also funds a range of community development and economic mobility efforts. Recent awards include support for loan readiness, microenterprise development, technical assistance for BIPOC entrepreneurs, and financial empowerment programming. Several grants point to a preference for organizations that can scale services or strengthen their own infrastructure, such as capacity-building awards to workforce, housing, and community development groups. Its giving is not limited to one issue area, but housing remains the most distinctive thread in the recent record. Within that cluster, Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation backs both direct service providers and intermediary organizations that work across multiple communities. The pattern suggests a funder that uses relatively concentrated grants to support organizations positioned to move capital, technical assistance, and housing access into underserved communities.
What Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation Funds
Housing-related grantmaking is central to the foundation’s recent profile. In 2025, it gave $50,000 to Plymouth Housing Group for the Housing Support Program, and another $50,000 to Northwest Housing Alternatives Inc for resident services. In 2024, it also funded Community Partners for Affordable Housing with $50,000 for resident services at its 11 properties, including eviction prevention and enrichment activities. Economic mobility appears through business and lending support. The foundation awarded $150,000 to Seattle Economic Development Fund for the Loan Readiness Center and $125,000 to Centro Community Partners for microenterprise ecosystem development and access to capital for women and minority entrepreneurs. Another $50,000 grant went to California Capital Financial Development Corporation for small business support in a post-pandemic economy. Financial education is another recurring lane. Portland Workforce Alliance received $100,000 to integrate financial literacy into career development programming for high school students, and Financial Beginnings received $100,000 for equitable financial empowerment education.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.2M
Total Assets
$16.8M
Total Revenue
$1M
Total Expenses
$3.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $8K, with a median of $6K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$6K
75th Percentile
$8K
Geographic Reach
Regional19 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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