How much does Northwest Health Foundation give?

Northwest Health Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $2,622,750, out of $2,749,053 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Northwest Health Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (41%), Public Benefit (30%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Northwest Health Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun ($1.7M), Building Power for Communities of Color ($1.1M), Tides Advocacy ($844k).

Does Northwest Health Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Health Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Health Foundation Fund II, Seeding Justice, Meyer Memorial Trust.

Where is Northwest Health Foundation based?

Northwest Health Foundation is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Northwest Health Foundation

NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION seeks to advance, support, and promote health in oregon and southwest washington. By providing grants to initiatives, forming partnerships with health and community leaders, and advocating for policy change.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 24
Itemized grants FY2024: 8
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $77,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $529,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 24; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $71M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Northwest Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	23	$2.6M	35%
FY2023	8	$201k	50%
FY2022	20	$2.4M	30%
FY2021	13	$516k	15%
FY2020	20	$1.5M	45%
FY2019	21	$1.8M	48%
FY2018	11	$1.1M	64%
FY2017	24	$1.0M	n/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.

Civil Rights$4.7MPublic Benefit$3.4MArts & Culture$1.4MCommunity Improvement$663kHealth$326kPhilanthropy$277kCrime & Legal$207kHuman Services$195kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun	$1,743,070	7	16%
Building Power for Communities of Color	$1,139,500	7	81%
Tides Advocacy	$843,500	5	0%
Apano	$778,350	7	88%
Oregonians United Against Profiling	$620,000	1	22%
Unite Oregon Action	$603,633	6	77%
Imagine Black	$550,000	6	85%
Naya Action Fund	$541,000	4	21%
Washington Community Action Network	$516,250	3	7%
Florida Rising Inc	$450,000	1	25%

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All grantees of Northwest Health Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun	$1,743,070	7	16%
Building Power for Communities of Color	$1,139,500	7	81%
Tides Advocacy	$843,500	5	0%
Apano	$778,350	7	88%
Oregonians United Against Profiling	$620,000	1	22%
Unite Oregon Action	$603,633	6	77%
Imagine Black	$550,000	6	85%
Naya Action Fund	$541,000	4	21%
Washington Community Action Network	$516,250	3	7%
Florida Rising Inc	$450,000	1	25%
Latino Network Action Fund	$442,986	5	n/a
Oneamerica Votes	$408,500	5	23%
Ebony Collective Coalition	$350,750	4	n/a
Washington County Ignite Action Fund	$147,500	1	n/a
Sw Washington Communities United for Change	$136,500	3	n/a
Safety and Justice Oregon	$132,000	4	31%
Momentum Alliance	$97,500	1	15%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization	$94,500	1	0%
Consejo Hispano	$92,000	2	16%
Euvalcree	$87,000	2	9%
Tribal Democracy Project	$77,000	1	n/a
Euvalcree Actio	$75,000	2	n/a
Love and Justice Alliance	$75,000	1	n/a
Southwest Washington Regional Health Alliance	$75,000	1	7%
Lets Talk Diversity Coalition Inc Lets Talk Diversity Coalition	$72,000	1	21%
Coalition of Communities of Color	$71,200	1	n/a
Health Care Coalition of Southern Oregon Inc	$60,000	1	6%
Pcun	$55,500	1	n/a
Playworks Education Energized	$52,500	1	0%
Portlanders for Charter Reform	$50,000	1	6%
Oregonians for Slavery Abolition	$50,000	1	62%
Washington Progress Alliance	$49,000	1	4%
Urban League of Portland Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$44,100	3	0%
Oregon Donor Alliance	$37,470	2	9%
East County Rising Action Fund	$36,000	1	7%
Community Alliance of Tenants Action Fund	$34,000	2	n/a
Causa of Oregon	$32,804	2	3%
Western States Strategies	$30,000	1	14%
Basic Rights Oregon	$28,557	5	2%
New Progressive Network	$28,500	2	6%
Yes for Real Community Oversight of Police	$25,000	1	12%
Nonprofit Association of Oregon	$24,000	1	2%
Kairospdx	$23,250	2	1%
North Star Action Center	$20,000	1	28%
Lets Get Moving	$20,000	1	n/a
Portland for All	$20,000	2	n/a
Yes for Portland Clean Energy Fund	$20,000	1	6%
State Voices	$12,500	1	0%
Self Enhancement Inc	$12,250	1	0%
Latino Community Association	$11,000	1	2%
Preschool for All	$10,000	1	n/a
Here Together	$10,000	1	1%
Oregon Public Health Institute	$10,000	1	1%
Rural Organizing Project	$10,000	1	1%
Street Roots Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Join	$10,000	1	0%
League of United Latin America Citizens	$8,500	1	n/a
Forward Together Action	$8,500	1	3%
Ebony Collective CDC	$8,500	1	n/a
East Metro Arts Culture & Community	$8,500	1	n/a
Healthy Teeth Hillsboro	$7,500	1	n/a
Western States Center	$7,500	1	0%
Latino Network	$7,200	1	0%
El Centro Nw	$6,000	1	2%
City Club of Portland	$6,000	1	1%
North Star Foundation	$6,000	1	2%
Apano Communities United Fund	$5,654	1	0%
Basic Rights Education Fund	$5,500	1	1%
Pendleton Community Action Coalition	$5,500	1	n/a

Northwest Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 52.

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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.

Northwest Health Foundation Fund IIOR82.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Seeding Justice · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Inatai Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Careoregon Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford 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 Health Foundation

How much does Northwest Health Foundation give?: Northwest Health Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $2,622,750, out of $2,749,053 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northwest Health Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (41%), Public Benefit (30%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Northwest Health Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Accion Politica Pcunista Dba Pcun ($1.7M), Building Power for Communities of Color ($1.1M), Tides Advocacy ($844k).
Does Northwest Health Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Health Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Health Foundation Fund II, Seeding Justice, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Northwest Health Foundation based?: Northwest Health Foundation is based in OR.