2025 Pink Shamrock Grants
The Pink Shamrock Foundation’s 2025 grants showcase the enduring impact of grassroots philanthropy in the fight against breast cancer, offering critical support to organizations across the Pacific Northwest. Each grant recipient reflects the foundation’s mission: to ensure women—especially those with limited access and resources—receive care, dignity, and hope throughout their cancer journey. This year’s grants total more than $46,000, distributed across eleven diverse organizations, each uniquely positioned to serve communities most in need.
The Pink Shamrock Mission
Founded upon the urgent need for support among women navigating breast cancer, the Pink Shamrock Foundation addresses a crucial gap: practical, compassionate assistance for those falling between the cracks of the healthcare system. While breast cancer does not discriminate by geography, income, or background, the risk of poor outcomes is higher for women with fewer resources. The foundation targets this inequity with direct grants, empowering community agencies to deliver housing, transportation, nutrition, counseling, and treatment to patients when it matters most.
2025 Grant Recipients
This year’s cohort highlights the diversity of care across Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and beyond. Here are the recipient organizations and the awarded amounts:
Providence Inland Northwest Foundation ($9,000), Hearthlinks ($5,000), Community Cancer Services ($3,500), Providence St. Mary’s ($3,500), Hospice ($4,000), CHAS ($3,000), Kootenai Health ($5,000), YMCA of Inland Northwest ($4,000), Because there is Hope ($2,000), Cancer Can’t ($3,000), Casting for Recovery ($4,000).
Spotlight on Local Impact
Providence Inland Northwest Foundation ($9,000) stands as the largest grant recipient of 2025. Based in Spokane, the organization has long provided exemplary oncology care, bridging access for patients in their greatest time of need. This grant helps fund patient assistance—ranging from co-pays to transportation—alleviating critical barriers to treatment for the region’s underserved.
Hearthlinks ($5,000), in rural Grandview, WA, uses these funds for support groups, emergency financial aid, and outreach programs connecting breast cancer patients with vital resources. Their presence ensures no woman faces diagnosis and treatment in isolation.
Community Cancer Services ($3,500) of Standpoint, ID, is a lifeline for local patients, providing counseling and direct support. Grants enable them to sustain programs that offer emotional, spiritual, and financial guidance, especially necessary in smaller, less-resourced communities.
Kootenai Health ($5,000) in Coeur d’Alene, ID, blends advanced medical care with community compassion, ensuring the journey through breast cancer is navigable for all, regardless of income or insurance status.
Because there is Hope ($2,000), operating in Spokane, underscores the importance of gentle, continual support. Small grants can be transformative—covering a patient’s rent for a month, funding wigs or mastectomy bras, or underwriting a support group.
Addressing the Gaps: The Power of Partnership
A hallmark of the Pink Shamrock Foundation is its collaborative, local-first approach. Rather than attempting to duplicate existing services, the foundation entrusts established community-based organizations with funds to address emergent needs quickly and flexibly. This model recognizes that local organizations understand their communities and clients best.
Whether it’s CHAS (Community Health Association of Spokane) supporting uninsured women, Hospice services which offer end-of-life dignity and pain management, or the YMCA developing wellness and survivorship programming, each grant recipient is positioned to reach people who might otherwise go unserved. These partnerships amplify the effectiveness and reach of every dollar.
Stories That Inspire
While grants are measured in dollars, the real outcomes are lives changed. Stories abound of women who, thanks to timely financial assistance, complete radiation when they otherwise might have stopped, or find safe housing and child care while fighting for their lives. Emotional support provided by programs like Casting for Recovery—which pairs fly fishing with healing retreats—offer hope and renewal, illustrating that wellness is as much about spirit as it is about medicine.
Organizations like Cancer Can’t and Because there is Hope provide not only urgent financial relief but a sense of community during one of life’s hardest battles. The foundation’s ongoing work demonstrates the value of weaving together personal compassion with collective action.
Looking Ahead: A Model of Sustainable Philanthropy
Since its founding, the Pink Shamrock Foundation has donated more than $450,000, with every contribution raised remaining in the Pacific Northwest region. The foundation’s model—lean, adaptable, and locally grounded—is a clear blueprint for effective charitable action. By eliminating unnecessary overhead, focusing on tangible outcomes, and working through trusted partners, The Pink Shamrock ensures that resources meet real, immediate needs.
How to Get Involved
Sustaining and growing this impact depends on new donors, volunteers, and advocates. Those interested in getting involved can support through direct donations, event participation, and spreading awareness—ensuring this vital work continues for years to come. The 2025 Pink Shamrock Foundation grants exemplify the strength found at the intersection of community, compassion, and action. Each award delivered this year not only relieves financial burdens, but also extends an enduring message: No one faces breast cancer alone in the Inland Northwest. Through continued generosity and partnership, hope thrives, transforming both individual lives and the broader story of survivorship.
