Thursday, October 1, 2026
WENATCHEE — The Community Foundation of North Central Washington announced that its 2025 Give NCW holiday fundraising campaign raised $1,085,414 for nonprofit organizations across North Central Washington, marking the highest total in the campaign’s 10-year history.
The total exceeded the previous year’s $904,765 by about 20 percent and marked the first time the annual campaign surpassed $1 million, according to the foundation.
Give NCW runs annually from Thanksgiving Day through Dec. 31 and supports nonprofit organizations serving Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties. In 2025, 98 organizations participated.
More than $135,000 was raised for the Give to All fund, which distributes equal supplemental funding to participating organizations. Each qualifying nonprofit received approximately $1,400 through the fund.
“The power of Give NCW comes from each and every person who participates,” said Thom Schroeder, the foundation’s director of marketing and communications. “When thousands of individual acts of giving are added together — rounding up at Plaza Super Jet, making a donation online, gathering a family around the dining table to give — so much good happens, right here at home.”
Donations were made through a range of channels, including online giving, donor-advised funds, qualified charitable distributions from individual retirement accounts and gifts of stock. The foundation reported that all credit card processing fees were covered either by donors or by the foundation, allowing 100 percent of donations to go directly to participating nonprofits.
The 2025 campaign also included incentive drawings and special events, including the third annual Give NCW Turkey Trot held on Thanksgiving Day. The event raised $37,421 for the Give to All fund. Additional contributions to the fund included charitable roundups from Plaza Super Jet customers and employee-owners totaling $10,311, as well as a $50,000 challenge match from the foundation.
According to the foundation, funds raised during the campaign support a broad range of services, including housing, food assistance, health care, arts and education programs throughout the three-county region.
The foundation was established in 1986 and manages approximately $163 million in assets through more than 690 individual funds. It has awarded more than $63 million in grants and scholarships, according to the organization.
For more information about Give NCW, visit the Community Foundation of North Central Washington website at www.cfncw.org.
2025 Give NCW Results
|
Organization |
Total Raised |
|
Akin (formerly Children's Home Society of Washington) |
$12,883.75 |
|
Alatheia Riding Center |
$17,150.75 |
|
Beauty of Bronze |
$3,553.75 |
|
Blue Sky Minds |
$5,508.00 |
|
Brave Warriors NCW |
$10,914.75 |
|
CAFÉ: Community for the Advancement of Family Education |
$16,326.75 |
|
Camp Fire NCW |
$7,978.75 |
|
Cascade Community Markets |
$5,556.75 |
|
Cascade Fisheries |
$5,759.75 |
|
Cascade Medical Foundation |
$6,791.75 |
|
Cashmere Food Bank |
$32,031.75 |
|
Chelan Valley Community Nurse |
$8,796.75 |
|
Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village |
$4,093.75 |
|
Chelan County Mountain Rescue Association |
$8,685.95 |
|
Chelan-Douglas CASA |
$16,441.75 |
|
Chelan-Douglas Community Action Council |
$18,916.75 |
|
Chelan Douglas County Volunteer Attorney Services |
$12,868.75 |
|
Chelan-Douglas Land Trust |
$32,504.75 |
|
Chelan Senior Center |
$4,366.75 |
|
Chelan Valley Hope |
$15,246.75 |
|
Chelan Valley Housing Trust |
$5,391.75 |
|
Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center Foundation |
$5,243.75 |
|
Columbia Valley Affordable Homeownership |
$2,876.75 |
|
Common Ground Community Housing Trust |
$9,658.75 |
|
Communities In Schools of North Central Washington |
$5,021.75 |
|
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Engagement |
$5,833.00 |
|
Garden Terrace Senior Living |
$4,223.75 |
|
Girls on the Run (Columbia Valley Community Health) |
$4,364.25 |
|
Greater Leavenworth Museum |
$7,513.00 |
|
Green Okanogan |
$5,408.00 |
|
Habitat For Humanity of the Greater Wenatchee Area |
$11,994.75 |
|
Happy Letters Association |
$3,304.92 |
|
Historic Downtown Chelan Association |
$673.75 |
|
Hand in Hand Immigration Services |
$26,068.75 |
|
Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation |
$6,367.75 |
|
Ingalls Creek Enrichment Center |
$4,564.75 |
|
Lake Chelan Bach Fest |
$6,860.41 |
|
Lake Chelan Health |
$9,222.75 |
|
Lake Chelan Valley Habitat for Humanity |
$6,866.75 |
|
Leavenworth Ski Hill Heritage Foundation |
$4,206.75 |
|
Loup Loup Ski Education Foundation |
$5,233.00 |
|
Master Gardener Foundation of Chelan-Douglas Counties |
$7,208.75 |
|
Mobile Meals of Wenatchee |
$18,669.75 |
|
Mountain Meadows |
$9,171.75 |
|
Mountain Sprouts Children's Community |
$7,868.75 |
|
NCW Arts Alliance |
$7,409.75 |
|
NCW Community Toy Drive |
$9,258.75 |
|
North Central Education Foundation |
$4,139.75 |
|
North Valley Community Health Association |
$5,591.75 |
|
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project |
$31,536.75 |
|
Numerica Performing Arts Center |
$7,283.75 |
|
Okanogan County Artists Association |
$570.00 |
|
Okanogan County Historical Society |
$3,068.00 |
|
Okanogan County Long Term Recovery Group |
$3,438.00 |
|
Okanogan County Search and Rescue Association |
$7,118.00 |
|
Okanogan Highlands Alliance |
$5,093.00 |
|
Okanogan Land Trust |
$7,083.00 |
|
Okanogan Regional Humane |
$6,008.00 |
|
Our Valley Our Future |
$7,571.75 |
|
Pateros Treehouse Early Education Organization |
$4,628.00 |
|
Plain Valley Ski Trails |
$4,226.75 |
|
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho |
$25,781.75 |
|
Pybus Market Charitable Foundation |
$5,506.75 |
|
Ridge 2 River Animal Haven and Humane Education |
$7,119.25 |
|
Sage Advocacy Center |
$14,911.75 |
|
Serve Wenatchee Valley |
$31,200.58 |
|
Small Miracles |
$19,889.75 |
|
Stage Kids WA |
$9,508.75 |
|
St. Vincent de Paul Society |
$20,544.75 |
|
Sustainable NCW |
$14,410.75 |
|
Team Okanogan Animal Rescue |
$16,908.00 |
|
TEAMS Learning Center |
$3,988.75 |
|
Tender Loving Care for Seniors |
$7,421.75 |
|
Cancer Support Community Central Washington (formerly Wellness Place) |
$18,599.75 |
|
The Knights Community Hospital Equipment Lend Program (KC HELP) |
$5,859.75 |
|
The Nature Immersion Program |
$2,658.00 |
|
Thrive Chelan Valley |
$5,031.75 |
|
Tierra Learning Center |
$11,771.75 |
|
Together for Youth |
$3,701.75 |
|
Tonasket Food Bank |
$16,100.50 |
|
TREAD (Trails & Recreation Engagement, Advocacy and Development) |
$8,718.75 |
|
Upper Valley Connection |
$6,408.00 |
|
Upper Valley MEND |
$77,191.75 |
|
Velocity Swimming |
$4,139.75 |
|
Waste Loop : Eastside Rebuild |
$6,943.75 |
|
Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society |
$3,873.75 |
|
Wenatchee Downtown Association |
$2,509.75 |
|
Wenatchee Outdoors |
$6,648.75 |
|
Wenatchee River Institute |
$21,334.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley College Foundation |
$7,133.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley Dispute Resolution Center |
$6,314.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley Humane Society |
$26,246.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center |
$12,794.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley Senior Activity Center |
$10,758.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley Symphony Association |
$27,408.75 |
|
Wenatchee Valley YMCA |
$14,953.75 |
|
Women's Resource Center of NCW |
$37,746.00 |
|
YWCA North Central Washington |
$19,151.00 |
|
$1,085,414.61 |
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