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Northwest Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
234
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.7MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$867kHealth$829kEducation$820kArts & Culture$614kYouth Development$405kOther$0
02FY2025 · 234 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k206 grants · $586k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 94% of reported assets are held in Northwest Bancshares Inc.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED FUND OF WARREN COUNTY$75,000
BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$40,000
WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL$30,000
BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC$25,500
SECOND HARVEST$25,000
LANCASTER LEBANON HABITAT FOR HUMAN$25,000
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION$20,000
NATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSE$20,000
TOYS FOR TOTS GREATER PITTSBURGH$19,000
BELMONT HOUSING FINANCIAL EDUCATION$18,000
LEADERSHIP BUFFALO$15,500
PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT G$15,000
LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION$12,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN WELLNESS AGENCY$10,000
FOOD HELPERS$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $740k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MHY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL YMCA: $10k → 12%HARGER UTILITIES CHARITIES INC: $5k → 13%SECOND HARVEST: $25k → 11%RUTH M SMITH CENTER: $5k → 14%ARC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $25k → 12%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $7k → 13%NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES: $12k → 17%ARC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $6k → 13%ARC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $10k → 17%BUTLER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 9%BUTLER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 9%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $5k → 13%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $5k → 13%GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC: $5k → 10%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY: $5k → 15%GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC: $5k → 10%ARC HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 12%ST MARTIN'S CENTER: $10k → 15%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $5k → 13%GAHANNA RESIDENTS IN NEED: $7k → 15%GUARDIAN ANGEL CENTER INC: $5k → 10%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $5k → 13%ST MARTIN'S CENTER: $5k → 15%THE MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $5k → 13%POWER PACKS PROJECT: $6k → 9%WATER STREET MISSION: $10k → 9%WATER STREET MISSION: $8k → 9%STATE COLLEGE FOOD BANK: $5k → 16%CENTRE SAFE: $5k → 16%YMCA OF CENTRE COUNTY: $5k → 16%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%CENTRE SAFE: $5k → 16%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%FRIENDSHIP TABLE: $7k → 15%DON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%BLESSING HOUSE: $7k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $26k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $26k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 13%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

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
MO
WV
TN
DC
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 8% of Northwest Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 66%.

Northwest Charitable 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 348 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

348 repeat relationships: 103 still active in FY2025, 245 since wound down; 126 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

348
384

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+18%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $413k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UF
    United Fund of Warren County Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +11%
  • BE
    BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +16%
  • BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ENDLESS
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • PD
    PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +314%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLV
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
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
Community Action Commission of Erie Huron & Richland Counties Inc

To focus all available local, state, private and federal resources upon the goal of enabling low income families and low income individual of all ages to obtain the skills knowledge and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for…

Human Services
2
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

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3
Center for Community Action

The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…

Housing & Shelter
4
United Way of Cumberland County Inc

Organization is dedicated to raising funds for programs that meet the human care needs of the people of cumberland county.

Philanthropy
5
Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.

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6
Wayne County Action Program Inc

The specific mission of the organization is to coordinate resources to inspire and empower people to acheive their full potential.

Human Services
7
United Way of Bucks County

United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co

In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…

Philanthropy
9
Pittsburgh Community Services Inc

Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
10
Wayne Economic Development Corporation

The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…

Community Improvement
11
Hancock-Hardin-Wyandot-Putnam Community Action Commission

To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…

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12
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wee Care Closet. 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

465 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. 465 of the 872 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
110
Early backer (in before they grew)
453/465
Grantees still filing
272/465
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ENDLESS: $200,200 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ENDLESSSTRUTHERS LIBRARY THEATRE: $195,000 · Other+120 more: $3,326,085 · Other+120 moreCOMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC: $913,320 · PhilanthropyCOMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAG…United Fund of Warren County Inc: $530,060 · PhilanthropyUnited Fund of Warren County …United Way of Erie County: $121,894 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Erie County+17 more: $435,470 · Philanthropy+17 moreBUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $156,500 · Human ServicesMARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $45,450 · Human ServicesARC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesBLESSING HOUSE: $32,119 · Human ServicesTIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Human ServicesSecond Harvest: $25,000 · Human ServicesBLACK ACHIEVERS INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $20,200 · Human ServicesBUTLER COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $20,000 · Human ServicesALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · Human ServicesSt Martin Center: $18,000 · Human Services+7 more: $101,807 · Human ServicesERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh Community Reinvestment G: $66,500 · Community ImprovementWARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Community ImprovementTRWIB INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 · Community Improvement43NORTH BPC INC: $22,500 · Community ImprovementFrench Creek District Development Corporation: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBLUEPRINTS: $17,350 · Community Improvement+3 more: $34,500 · Community ImprovementBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $180,000 · EducationWarren Sports Boosters: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 · EducationVOICES FOR INDEPENDENCE: $33,166 · EducationIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationIroquois School District Foundation: $16,600 · EducationMARBURN ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationPhase 4 Learning Center Inc: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $22,700 · EducationWARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthDICKINSON CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 · HealthBRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE: $35,000 · HealthLORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY: $32,075 · HealthPenn Highlands Healthcare Inc: $30,000 · HealthCRAWFORD COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM INC: $25,500 · HealthERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $20,000 · HealthFULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $30,001 · Arts & CultureBradford Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc: $25,500 · Arts & CultureJuneteenth Festival Inc: $22,500 · Arts & CultureWEPA EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $20,016 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER: $17,500 · Arts & CultureWarren County 4th of July Organization: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF YORK COUNTY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY: $13,452 · Arts & CultureTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER: $13,000 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC: $11,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,721,285Philanthropy$2,000,744Human Services$523,076Community Improvement$445,850Education$392,466Health$380,075Arts & Culture$202,969

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC: $913,320 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetUnited Fund of Warren County Inc: $530,060 over 9y, 11% of budgetBRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $156,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUnited Way of Erie County: $121,894 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Warren PA: $110,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetWARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON CENTER INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC: $95,000 over 8y, 56% of budgetPittsburgh Community Reinvestment G: $66,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Warren County: $65,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWARREN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $63,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetWarren Sports Boosters: $50,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetJunior Achievement of Western New York: $49,675 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC: $45,450 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetTRWIB INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NIAGARA INC: $44,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD HELPERS: $43,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC: $43,346 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHERS OF MERCY FACILITIES FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBRADFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHEADWATERS CHARITABLE TRUST: $37,300 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetARC HUMAN SERVICES INC: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFORD AREA ALLIANCE: $35,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNCIE INDIANA INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR INDEPENDENCE: $33,166 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetERIE DAWN INC: $32,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE: $32,119 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY HEALTH & DENTISTRY: $32,075 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRADFORD ECUMENICAL HOME INC: $31,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD KNIGHTS INC: $30,300 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFULTON THEATRE COMPANY: $30,001 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPenn Highlands Healthcare Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION: $29,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CENTRE COUNTY INC: $28,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCLEARFIELD AREA UNITED WAY: $27,600 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetResource Council of WNY Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBradford Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc: $25,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAM INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.6% 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 COMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds United Fund of Warren County Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRADFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Erie County ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Warren PA ↗
  • Who funds WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY CLUB OF BUFFALO NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Warren County ↗
  • Who funds WARREN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Warren Sports Boosters ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Western New York ↗
  • Who funds MARY LEE TUCKER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TRWIB INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NIAGARA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD HELPERS ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗

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.

Erie Community Founda…Firstenergy FoundationCommunity Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…United Way of Erie Co…Community Foundation …The United Way of Sou…The Western New York …Philo & Sarah Blaisde…M J Surgala TrCommunity Foundation …First Niagara Foundat…
Erie Community FoundationPA70.2× affinity49 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Community Foundation of Warren County · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Western New York Foundation · Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Community Foundation of the Northern Alleghenies · First Niagara 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 Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    89report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Northwest Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Northwest Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 872 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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