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Northwest Area Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
149
Grants FY2024
132
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$700,000
Organizations funded a year
132 to 156
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$548M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Northwest Area Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving136$16M21%
FY2023132$16M22%
FY2022137$15M16%
FY2021138$17M14%
FY2020156$18M22%
FY2019144$16M29%
FY2018134$19M40%
FY2017137$16Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$64MHuman Services$15MCivil Rights$11MPhilanthropy$9.7MYouth Development$7.9MFood & Nutrition$5.2MEmployment$4.2MHousing & Shelter$4.1MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oweesta Corporation$4,110,213786%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor$3,422,341712%
Nexus Community Partners$2,602,000814%
Build Wealth MN Inc$2,325,000816%
The Directors Council$2,214,550897%
Craft3$2,200,00063%
Native American Youth and Family Center$2,176,00084%
Byrd Barr Place$2,050,00088%
Ujamaa Place$1,975,000821%
First Nations Development Institute$1,938,10577%
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All grantees of Northwest Area Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oweesta Corporation$4,110,213786%
Thunder Valley Community Development Cor$3,422,341712%
Nexus Community Partners$2,602,000814%
Build Wealth MN Inc$2,325,000816%
The Directors Council$2,214,550897%
Craft3$2,200,00063%
Native American Youth and Family Center$2,176,00084%
Byrd Barr Place$2,050,00088%
Ujamaa Place$1,975,000821%
First Nations Development Institute$1,938,10577%
First Peoples Fund$1,875,000621%
Ventures$1,775,000823%
Four Bands Community Fund Inc$1,733,000718%
NACDC Financial Services Inc$1,725,000827%
Chief Seattle Club$1,720,00066%
Opportunity Link Inc$1,697,804867%
Warm Springs Community Action Team$1,585,431841%
Sharing Our Roots$1,550,000845%
The Lakota Fund Incorporated$1,450,000743%
Northside Economic Opportunity Network$1,425,000722%
Taala Fund$1,350,000771%
Prepare and Prosper$1,310,000519%
Northwest Indian Community Development Center Nwicdc$1,295,00068%
The Peoples Partners for Community Development$1,218,000646%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$1,205,00050%
White Earth Investment Initiative$1,075,000699%
Native Cdfi Network Inc$1,075,000558%
Northwest Native Development Fund$1,075,000519%
Global to Local Health Initiative$1,072,565717%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc$1,050,00053%
Working Partnerships Inc$1,050,000448%
Prosperity Now$1,025,00033%
Pacific Northwest Tribal Lending Financial Institution$1,025,000538%
Nimiipuu Community Development Fund$1,018,000672%
Dakota Resources$1,007,501512%
Rural Community Development Resources$1,000,000732%
Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial Inc$975,000813%
Verde Inc$950,00076%
Immigrant Development Center$940,000845%
Native American Development Center$936,124781%
Neighborhood Development Center Inc$925,00076%
Standing Rock Community Development$925,000424%
Summit Academy Oic$900,00053%
Black Hills Community Loan Fund Inc$875,000586%
Appetite for Change Inc$860,00077%
Region Five Development Commission$828,5004n/a
Ndn Fund Inc$825,000380%
Philanthrofund Foundation Inc$820,000647%
Native360 Loan Fund Inc$799,824613%
Philanthropy Northwest$799,13575%
Urban League Twin Cities$795,000412%
Native American Development Corporaton$772,50066%
MIGIZI Communications Inc$752,000620%
Tacoma Urban League$750,000528%
National Congress of American Indians Fund$750,00054%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization$746,00060%
Plenty Doors Community Development Corporation$725,000531%
African Economic Development Solutions$715,000616%
African American Leadership Forum$705,00047%
Refugee & Immigrant Voices in Action$702,50056%
Ecotrust$700,00043%
Community Lendingworks$675,000714%
Montana Community Development Corp$650,00051%
Hmong American Partnership$650,00023%
Lower Phalen Creek Project$626,00059%
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon$621,00075%
Propel Nonprofits$612,25033%
Capaces Leadership Institute$600,00046%
Mni Sota Fund$590,000628%
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc$590,000510%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$575,00060%
American Indian Science and Engineering Society$575,00046%
Dream of Wild Health$558,000614%
New Avenues for Youth Inc$550,00061%
Tanka Fund$540,000425%
Neighborimpact$525,00051%
Nixyaawii Community Financial Services$525,00048%
Ndn Collective Inc$525,00046%
Leech Lake Financial Services Inc$525,000618%
Hmong American Farmers Association$510,000513%
Oneamerica$505,00055%
American Indian College Fund$500,00021%
Center Pole$485,00045%
Rural Organizing Project$475,000510%
American Indian Community Housing Organization$475,00047%
Homes of Oakridge Human Services$465,00063%
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development$465,00053%
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo$450,000415%
Mni Wichoni Health Circle$450,000349%
Interim Community Development Association$449,90452%
Blackfeet Community College$449,19531%
Makoce Agriculture Development$440,000415%
Equitable Food Initiative$425,000321%
First Children's Finance$425,00065%
Minneapolis American Indian Center$425,00026%
Community Opportunities Inc$417,48141%
Northwest Native Chamber$405,000335%
Lakota Youth Development$400,000719%
Jobs Foundation$400,00044%
247 Blac$400,000344%
United Vision for Idaho Inc$400,000228%
Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence$400,00038%
Latino Economic Development Center$400,00042%
Self Enhancement Inc$400,00021%
Emerge Community Development$400,00043%
Rural Electric Economic Development Inc$375,00039%
Funders Together to End Homelessnes$375,00029%
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$370,000417%
Lower Columbia Community Action Council$351,90022%
Juma Ventures Inc$350,00052%
Capi USA$350,00034%
Cultural Wellness Center$340,00026%
Native Americans in Philanthropy$325,000810%
Latino Community Association$325,00058%
The Network for Better Futures Dba Better Futures Minnesota$325,00025%
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul$316,0007n/a
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice$310,000213%
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment$303,000329%
Homesight$300,00014%
Amos Institute of Public Life$300,000370%
Sage Foundation Inc$300,00018%
Sicangu Community Development Corporation$300,000215%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems$290,000231%
Apano Communities United Fund$275,00033%
Confederated Salish and Kootenai$260,0001n/a
Blue Bird LifeWays$252,500247%
Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization$250,000228%
Mountain Shadow Association$250,000143%
Akiptan Inc$250,00022%
Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence$250,000210%
The Rondo Community Land Trust$250,00013%
Fast Blackfeet$250,000213%
Whiteswan Environmental We$250,000236%
Native American Community Board$250,000213%
Northland Foundation$250,00015%
The Tatanka Funds Incorporated$250,000261%
South Dakota Education Equity Coalition$250,00017%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice$250,000210%
Eshara$250,000238%
Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities$250,00014%
Lavender Rights Project$250,00026%
Aapi Civic Engagement Fund$250,00015%
He Sapa Otipi Inc$250,000219%
Cankdeska Cikana Community College$249,30031%
Solid Ground Washington$245,00030%
Minnesota Council on Foundations$243,10075%
National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders$242,50017%
Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa$235,9002n/a
Lower Sioux Indian Community$225,3563n/a
Honor the Earth$225,00025%
South Dakota Voices for Peace$225,000412%
Nonprofit Information Networking Association$225,00043%
Rural Dynamics Inc$215,000232%
Native Governance Center$210,000327%
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa$200,000221%
Island Mountain Community Development Financial Institution Inc$200,000147%
Wind River Development Fund$200,000112%
Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation$190,000311%
Montana Racial Equity Project$190,000424%
Coalition of Asian American Leaders$185,00034%
Montana Two Spirit Society$177,500420%
Front and Centered$175,00017%
Indigenous Peoples Task Force$175,00018%
Centro Latino of Iowa$160,000230%
The Awood Center$150,000220%
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance$150,000141%
Womenventure$150,00024%
Potlatch Fund$150,00023%
Association for Black Economic Power$150,000213%
Hopa Mountain Inc$150,00034%
Akiing 8th Fire$150,00025%
American Indian Business Alliance$150,000252%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund$150,00031%
Little Earth Residents Association Inc$150,00027%
Metropolitan Economic Development Association$150,00021%
Dmacc Foundation$150,00022%
The Praxis Project Inc$138,00011%
Council on Foundations Inc$137,70070%
Coalition of Communities of Color$130,00023%
Puget Sound Sage$125,00019%
Samoa Pacific Development Corporation$125,00018%
American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc$125,00011%
Voices for Racial Justice$125,000119%
Chief Joseph Foundation$125,000236%
Minnesota Museum of American Art$125,00028%
Oceti Sakowin Community Academy$125,000115%
Imagine Black Futures$125,00017%
African Career Education & Resources In$125,00015%
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette$125,00011%
Copal-Education Fund Communidades Organizando El Poder y la A$125,00013%
Rainbow Research Inc$121,831118%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State$120,00021%
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw$100,00012%
American Indian Oic$100,00013%
Microenterprise Resources Initiative & Training (Merit)$100,0001n/a
Islamic Resource Group$100,000423%
Hacienda Community Development Corporation$100,00011%
Farmers' Legal Action Group Inc$100,000117%
Our Childrens Earth Foundation$100,00016%
The Human Family$100,000214%
Uniting Resilience$100,000173%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$100,00011%
Greater Twin Cities United Way$100,00010%
Asian Economic Development Association$100,00019%
Independent Sector$87,50070%
Yamhill Community Development Corp$87,500110%
The Next Door Inc$85,0002n/a
Iowa Caregivers$80,000216%
Nakoda-Aaniih Credit Agency$80,0001n/a
Afro American Development Association$75,0001n/a
Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits Inc - Coalition of Asian Ame$75,0001n/a
COUP Council$75,000120%
Mica Group Inc$75,00023%
Neighborhood Partnerships Inc$70,00011%
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues$65,00070%
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders$61,00062%
Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development$60,00010%
Indian Nations Conservation Alliance$60,000118%
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc$55,87311%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$52,94070%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$52,50070%
Transformation Project Inc$50,000113%
Mano A Mano$50,00016%
Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers$50,00011%
Native American Community Development Institute$50,00015%
We Are Healers Inc$50,000110%
Indigenous Association$50,0001n/a
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees$50,00070%
Northwest Health Foundation Fund II$50,00015%
Center for American Indian Research & Native Studies$50,000110%
Blackfeet Eco Knowledge$50,00017%
The Native Ways Federation Inc$50,00014%
Renewing the Countryside$50,00012%
Boardsource$50,00040%
Idaho Black Community Alliance Inc$50,0001n/a
Hispanics in Philanthropy$45,00070%
Neighborhood Funders Group$40,50060%
Policylink$40,00010%
Fort Peck Community College$38,23110%
Montana Nonprofit Association$38,00022%
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc$35,00070%
Little Big Horn College$34,5001n/a
Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc$34,50050%
YWCA of Minneapolis$33,00050%
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc$32,50070%
Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance$31,000216%
College Possible Inc$27,50030%
Stone Child College$25,22110%
Access Philanthropy Charities$25,00015%
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research$25,00012%
Literacy Source a Community Learning Center$25,00012%
Center for Economic Inclusion$25,00030%
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance$25,00010%
American Friends Service Committee$25,0001n/a
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For$25,00013%
Hispanics United for Perry Inc$25,0001n/a
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council Inc$25,00012%
Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho$25,0001n/a
Grantmakers of Oregon and Sw Washington$24,71573%
National Native American Hall of Fame$22,5001n/a
Aaniiih Nakoda College (Fort Belknap College)$21,87510%
Salish Kootenai College Inc$20,28510%
YWCA USA Inc$20,00020%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$19,50070%
Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation$17,50022%
Duwamish Tribal Services Dba Duwamish Tribal Services Inc$15,00021%
Union Gospel Mission Association of St Paul Inc$15,00030%
Asset Funders Network$15,00030%
Mission Investors Exchange Inc$15,00010%
Foundation Financial Officers Group Inc$13,00031%
Cradle of Hope$10,0002n/a
Women of Color Alliance Inc$10,0001n/a
Unidos Minnesota Education Fund$10,00011%
Credit Builders Alliance Inc$10,00011%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery$10,00020%
Open Arms of Minnesota$8,00020%
Immigrant Justice Idaho$8,00021%
First Universalist Church$7,5001n/a
Youthprise$7,50010%
Neighbors Inc$7,00010%
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership$7,00011%
American Indian Family Center$6,00010%
Penumbra Theatre Company Inc$6,00010%
Minnesota Freedom Fund$6,00013%
Latinx Immigrants of Iowa$6,0001n/a
Jeremiah Program$6,00010%
Al Jazari Institute$6,00011%
Nimiipuu Ecosystems Restoration Inc$6,0001n/a
Iowa Arts in Education Dba Artforce Iowa$5,00011%
One Iowa$5,00011%
Philanthropy New York Inc$5,00010%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc$5,00010%
Network for Developing Conscious Communities Inc$5,00012%
Community Council of Idaho Inc$5,00010%
Tm Mikinaak Ode Center$5,0001n/a
The Tiwahe Foundation$5,00012%
Kaposia Inc$5,00010%
Day Eagle Hope Project$5,00012%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$5,0001n/a
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon$4,5001n/a
Onevillage Partners$4,00020%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation$4,00010%
Lifeworks Services Inc$3,50010%
The Consensus Council Inc$3,00010%
Mountain Plains Youth Works$3,00010%
Ain Dah Yung (Our Home) Center$3,00010%
Association of Cooperative Educators$3,0001n/a
Jannus Inc$3,00010%
Iowa Council of Foundations$2,85070%
Catalyst Montana$2,50010%
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc$2,50010%
Empower Mt$2,50011%
Montana Council on Developmental Disabilities$2,5001n/a
Microgrants$2,00010%
Indigenous Roots$2,00010%
Fathers Rise Together Inc Family Rise Together Inc$1,00010%
Second Stork$1,00011%
National Indigenous Womens Resource Center Inc$1,00010%
Young Women's Christian Association of St Paul$1,00010%
The Family Partnership$1,00010%
Second Harvest Heartland$1,00010%
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha$1,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,00010%
Toledo Community Fondation$50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Northwest Area Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 45 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOweesta Corporation: $4,110,213 over 7y, 86% of budgetThunder Valley Community Development Cor: $3,422,341 over 7y, 12% of budgetNexus Community Partners: $2,602,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetBuild Wealth MN Inc: $2,325,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetThe Directors Council: $2,214,550 over 8y, 97% of budgetCraft3: $2,200,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNative American Youth and Family Center: $2,176,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetByrd Barr Place: $2,050,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetUjamaa Place: $1,975,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetFirst Nations Development Institute: $1,938,105 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetFirst Peoples Fund: $1,875,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetVentures: $1,775,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetFour Bands Community Fund Inc: $1,733,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetNACDC Financial Services Inc: $1,725,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetChief Seattle Club: $1,720,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetOpportunity Link Inc: $1,697,804 over 8y, 67% of budgetWarm Springs Community Action Team: $1,585,431 over 8y, 41% of budgetSharing Our Roots: $1,550,000 over 8y, 45% of budgetThe Lakota Fund Incorporated: $1,450,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetNorthside Economic Opportunity Network: $1,425,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetTaala Fund: $1,350,000 over 7y, 71% of budgetPrepare and Prosper: $1,310,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNorthwest Indian Community Development Center Nwicdc: $1,295,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetThe Peoples Partners for Community Development: $1,218,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $1,205,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWhite Earth Investment Initiative: $1,075,000 over 6y, 99% of budgetNative Cdfi Network Inc: $1,075,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetNorthwest Native Development Fund: $1,075,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetGlobal to Local Health Initiative: $1,072,565 over 7y, 17% of budgetCommunidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc: $1,050,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWorking Partnerships Inc: $1,050,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetProsperity Now: $1,025,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPacific Northwest Tribal Lending Financial Institution: $1,025,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetNimiipuu Community Development Fund: $1,018,000 over 6y, 72% of budgetDakota Resources: $1,007,501 over 5y, 12% of budgetRural Community Development Resources: $1,000,000 over 7y, 32% of budgetMazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial Inc: $975,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetVerde Inc: $950,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetImmigrant Development Center: $940,000 over 8y, 45% of budgetNative American Development Center: $936,124 over 7y, 81% of budgetNeighborhood Development Center Inc: $925,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetStanding Rock Community Development: $925,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetSummit Academy Oic: $900,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBlack Hills Community Loan Fund Inc: $875,000 over 5y, 86% of budgetAppetite for Change Inc: $860,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetNdn Fund Inc: $825,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetPhilanthrofund Foundation Inc: $820,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetNative360 Loan Fund Inc: $799,824 over 6y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The McKnight FoundationMN118.9× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · First Nations Development Institute · Ndn Collective Inc · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation

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 Northwest Area Foundation

How much does Northwest Area Foundation give?
Northwest Area Foundation reported 149 grants totaling $18,241,029 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 132 and 156 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northwest Area Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (46%), Human Services (10%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are Northwest Area Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oweesta Corporation ($4.1M), Thunder Valley Community Development Cor ($3.4M), Nexus Community Partners ($2.6M).
Does Northwest Area Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Northwest Area Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Area Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, The Bush Foundation, Target Foundation.
Where is Northwest Area Foundation based?
Northwest Area Foundation is based in MN.

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 383 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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