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North Cascades Institute

The institutes's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through transformative learning experiences in natures.

$770k
Granted FY2017
11
Itemized grants FY2017
10
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$407k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$19,380
Largest grant, FY2017
$144,547
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$9.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bellingham School District 501$144,5478n/a
Mount Vernon School District$128,9378n/a
Anacortes School District$32,6165n/a
Blaine Elementary School$28,1434n/a
Chelan Middle School$19,3802n/a
Everett Public Schools$18,5821n/a
Friday Harbor Middle School$11,5053n/a
Methow Valley School District$9,5586n/a
Concrete School District$8,3523n/a
Sedro-Woolley STEM Network$5,5085n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

North Sound Accountab…The Albertsons Compan…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Building Changes
North Sound Accountable Community of HealthWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Sound Accountable Community of Health · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Building Changes

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About North Cascades Institute

How much does North Cascades Institute give?
North Cascades Institute reported 11 itemized grants totaling $407,128, out of $769,760 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does North Cascades Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are North Cascades Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Bellingham School District 501 ($145k), Mount Vernon School District ($129k), Anacortes School District ($33k).
Which funders back the same organizations as North Cascades Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Sound Accountable Community of Health, The Albertsons Companies Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington.
Where is North Cascades Institute based?
North Cascades Institute is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $550k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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