Washington · Public charity
Northwest Business Development Assoc
To support business growth, job creation and job retention by providing quality small business loan services, including screening, organizing, packaging, processing and closings, in combination with local lending institutions and the SBA.
- $246k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $232k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Northwest Business Development Assoc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $232k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $204k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $95k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $90k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $195k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $80k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $94k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopeworks Social Enterprises | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spokane Colleges Foundation | $53,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Spokane Area Workforce Development Council | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Helping Women Fund | $35,000 | 1 | 4% |
| School's Out Washington | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Kitchen Spokane | $35,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopeworks Social Enterprises | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spokane Colleges Foundation | $53,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Spokane Area Workforce Development Council | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Helping Women Fund | $35,000 | 1 | 4% |
| School's Out Washington | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Kitchen Spokane | $35,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adelante Mujeres | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Central Oregon Veterans Ranch | $30,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Mid-Columbia Economic Development District | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Teen Closet | $30,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Feast | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Familias en Accion | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($419k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Northwest Business Development Assoc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Washington State Microenterprise Association · The Avista Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Seattle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Northwest Business Development Assoc
- How much does Northwest Business Development Assoc give?
- Northwest Business Development Assoc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $232,000, out of $245,585 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Northwest Business Development Assoc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (63%), Employment (15%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Northwest Business Development Assoc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Hopeworks Social Enterprises ($105k), Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County ($55k), Spokane Colleges Foundation ($53k).
- Does Northwest Business Development Assoc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Business Development Assoc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, Credit Unions in the State of Washington, Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Northwest Business Development Assoc based?
- Northwest Business Development Assoc is based in WA.
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