Oregon · Private foundation
Northwest 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $142,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Northwest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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 | 41 | $1.0M | 54% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $491k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $615k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $448k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $451k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $79k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $34k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Fathers House | $1,100,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center | $363,361 | 8 | 3% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc | $123,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Self Enhancement Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Intimacy ICU | $85,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Michelles Love | $62,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Project Lemonade Inc | $61,000 | 7 | 2% |
| As Is Church | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland YouthBuilders | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Dougy Center Inc | $48,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($727k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Northwest Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Meyer Memorial Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation
How this is measured
About Northwest Foundation
- How much does Northwest Foundation give?
- Northwest Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,049,864 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Northwest Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (37%), Health (17%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Northwest Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: My Fathers House ($1.1M), Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center ($363k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc ($123k).
- Does Northwest Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Northwest 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Autzen Foundation.
- Where is Northwest Foundation based?
- Northwest Foundation is based in OR.
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