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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 FY2024still arriving
149
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k84 grants · $9.6M
  • $250k+24 grants · $8.3M
$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$548M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER$700,000
HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE$500,000
NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS$500,000
THE DIRECTORS COUNCIL$500,000
THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$500,000
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY - INDIAN AFFAIRS$500,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST$450,000
WORKING PARTNERSHIPS INCORPORATED$450,000
OWEESTA CORPORATION$400,000
SAGE FOUNDATION INC$300,000
CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB$270,000
NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK$250,000
SEEDING JUSTICE$250,000
IOWA MIGRANT MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE$250,000
COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $260k → 16%MOUNTAIN SHADOW ASSOCIATION: $250k → 10%CENTER POLE: $200k → 23%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $200k → 9%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $300k → 17%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD: $175k → 22%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $175k → 14%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $200k → 9%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $200k → 17%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $205k → 33%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $150k → 9%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $150k → 17%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200k → 33%ETHNIC MINORITIES OF BURMA ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $150k → 10%NEIGHBORIMPACT: $150k → 10%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $150k → 17%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200k → 33%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $195k → 33%BYRD BARR PLACE: $500k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $250k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $250k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $250k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $250k → 9%CENTERSTONE OF SEATTLE: $200k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $200k → 9%EQUITABLE FOOD INITIATIVE: $225k → 14%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $450k → 14%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $225k → 14%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $225k → 14%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $185k → 14%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $500k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $500k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $270k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $200k → 9%ESHARA: $175k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $300k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $200k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $250k → 11%UJAMAA PLACE: $200k → 14%MACC ALLIANCE OF CONNECTED COMMUNITIES: $250k → 11%UJAMAA PLACE: $200k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $175k → 11%UJAMAA PLACE: $200k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $200k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $200k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $200k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $200k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $175k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
NM
AR
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Northwest Area Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Northwest Area Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124M · 224 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

224 repeat relationships: 107 still active in FY2024, 117 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

224
114

Total granted

$124M
$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+41%

Still filing today

87%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OC
    OWEESTA CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +803% · 86% of their budget
  • BW
    Build Wealth MN Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +446%
  • TD
    THE DIRECTORS COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +149% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • TV
    THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $325k
  • H
    HOMESIGHT
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +2%
  • CS
    CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI
    one grant, 2018 · $260k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
2
Northern California Indian Development Council Inc

Research, develop, and administer social and economic development programs to meet the needs of indian and native american communities and individuals residing in the state of california. also for the conservation and preservation of…

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3
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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4
American Indian Community Development Corporation

To provide culturally unique initiatives, housing & entrepreneurial programs that will strengthen the american indian community

Housing & Shelter
5
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
6
Division of Indian Work

Division of indian work's mission is to support and strengthen urban american indian people through culturally-based education, traditional healing approaches, and leadership development. we achieve this by focusing on community and…

Human Services
7
Native American Finance Officer Association

To grow tribal economies by strengthening tribal finance.

Social Science
8
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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9
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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10
Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture

To improve the quality of life for native hawaiians through community partnerships that provide educational opportunities and promote self-sufficiency.

Education
11
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians

The affiliated tribes of northwest indians is founded on the principles of unity and cooperation among indian governments and people.

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12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ndn Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Network for Developing Conscious Communities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

324 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 324 of the 383 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

45
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
114
Early backer (in before they grew)
315/324
Grantees still filing
227/324
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OWEESTA CORPORATION: $4,110,213 · Community ImprovementOWEESTA CORPORATIONTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $3,422,341 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPME…CRAFT3: $2,200,000 · Community ImprovementCRAFT3FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC: $1,733,000 · Community ImprovementNACDC Financial Services Inc: $1,725,000 · Community ImprovementWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $1,585,431 · Community ImprovementSHARING OUR ROOTS: $1,550,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED: $1,450,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $1,425,000 · Community ImprovementTAALA FUND: $1,350,000 · Community Improvement+34 more: $19,795,728 · Community Improvement+34 moreFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $1,938,105 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $1,550,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $2,176,000 · OtherFIRST PEOPLES FUND: $1,875,000 · Other+85 more: $37,550,700 · Other+85 moreBYRD BARR PLACE: $2,050,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACEUJAMAA PLACE: $1,975,000 · Human ServicesUJAMAA PLACECHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $1,720,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLU…Prepare and Prosper: $1,310,000 · Human ServicesPrepare and Prosp…NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $1,075,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $936,124 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $925,000 · Human ServicesSTANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $925,000 · Human ServicesAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $860,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $795,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Urban League: $750,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT VOICES IN ACTION: $702,500 · Human Services+20 more: $6,969,381 · Human Services+20 moreBuild Wealth MN Inc: $2,325,000 · EducationVENTURES: $1,775,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $900,000 · EducationMIGIZI Communications Inc: $752,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS: $715,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $705,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $500,000 · EducationBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $449,195 · Education+3 more: $649,300 · EducationNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,602,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DIRECTORS COUNCIL: $2,214,550 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS: $612,250 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $535,000 · PhilanthropySEEDING JUSTICE: $500,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $417,950 · Philanthropy+4 more: $900,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $1,050,000 · EmploymentWorking Partnerships Inc: $1,050,000 · EmploymentVerde Inc: $950,000 · EmploymentHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP: $650,000 · EmploymentMICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON: $621,000 · EmploymentJOBS FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EmploymentJUMA VENTURES INC: $350,000 · EmploymentOPPORTUNITY LINK INC: $1,697,804 · Housing & ShelterMAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL INC: $975,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $475,000 · Housing & ShelterLatino Economic Development Center: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington: $245,000 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$40,346,713Other$45,089,805Human Services$20,993,005Education$8,770,495Philanthropy$7,781,750Employment$5,071,000Housing & Shelter$4,292,804

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $1,550,000 over 7y, 7.1% 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,008,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $950,000 over 3y, 11% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds OWEESTA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
  • Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Build Wealth MN Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DIRECTORS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CRAFT3 ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
  • Who funds UJAMAA PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
  • Who funds VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NACDC Financial Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY LINK INC ↗
  • Who funds WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM ↗
  • Who funds SHARING OUR ROOTS ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds THE LAKOTA FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TAALA FUND ↗
  • Who funds Prepare and Prosper ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC ↗
  • Who funds THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WHITE EARTH INVESTMENT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE CDFI NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC ↗
  • Who funds Working Partnerships Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROSPERITY NOW ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRIBAL LENDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Nimiipuu Community Development Fund ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds Rural Community Development Resources ↗
  • Who funds MAZASKA OWECASO OTIPI FINANCIAL INC ↗

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 Foundati…The Bush FoundationTarget FoundationOtto Bremer TrustFirst Nations Develop…Ndn Collective IncFr Bigelow FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Headwaters Foundation…Women's Foundation of…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mortenson Family Foun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northwest Area Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Area Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Nixyaawii Community Financial Services: 100% of income from government
  • Yamhill Community Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation: 48% of income from government
  • Community Lendingworks: 43% of income from government
  • The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation: 28% of income from government
  • Samoa Pacific Development Corporation: 28% of income from government
  • Warm Springs Community Action Team: 28% of income from government
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Capaces Leadership Institute: 20% of income from government
  • Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation: 18% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Latino Community Association: 11% of income from government
  • Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • CRAFT3: 1% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home