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Northwest Health Foundation

NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION seeks to advance, support, and promote health in oregon and southwest washington.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$529k
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.

Civil Rights$4.7MPublic Benefit$3.4MArts & Culture$1.4MCommunity Improvement$663kHealth$326kPhilanthropy$277kCrime & Legal$207kHuman Services$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $2,622,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,749,053 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $126,303 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $529k
$77,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$529,000
FISCAL SPONSOR TIDES ADVOCACY FOR OREGON FUTURES LAB$233,500
LATINO NETWORK ACTION FUND$195,000
ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA$195,000
IMAGINE BLACK$172,500
OREGON ACTION$170,000
NAYA ACTION FUND$170,000
FISCAL SPONSOR WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK FOR PACIFIC COUNTY VOIC$158,750
APANO STATEWIDE$152,250
WASHINGTON COUNTY IGNITE ACTION FUND$147,500
ONEAMERICA VOTES$127,500
TRIBAL DEMOCRACY PROJECT$77,000
LOVE AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE$75,000
SAFETY AND JUSTICE OREGON$50,000
EAST COUNTY RISING ACTION FUND$36,000
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, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $9k → 10%THE LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%LOWER COLUMBIA HISPANIC COUNCIL: $82k → 13%EUVALCREE: $50k → 20%THE LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%CONSEJO HISPANO: $10k → 13%EUVALCREE: $35k → 20%EUVALCREE: $2k → 20%STREET ROOTS: $10k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $30k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $9k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $6k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $3k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $2k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $2k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $200 → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 25 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
37

Total granted

$8.7M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
0%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • AP
    ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +21%
  • BP
    BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +865% · 81% of their budget
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $844k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • OU
    Oregonians United Against Profiling
    one grant, 2018 · $620k
  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $450k · revenue +122%
  • MA
    MOMENTUM ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $98k · revenue -35%
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
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services
4
Oregon Progress Forum

Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.

Environment
5
Yes on 117

Support measure to bring ranked choice voting to Oregonians

—
6
Rogue Action Center

Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.

Community Improvement
7
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…

—
9
Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network

To provide assistance and awareness of oregon jobs

Civil Rights
10
Affordable Housing for Oregon

Support state ballot measure

—
11
Oregonians United to End Slavery

Support passage of state ballot Measure 112

—
12
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Donor Alliance; the most unlike its peers is North Star Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 72 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/59
Grantees still filing
32/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY: $843,500 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYOregonians United Against Profiling: $620,000 · OtherOregonians United Against ProfilingUNITE OREGON ACTION: $603,633 · OtherUNITE OREGON ACTIONWashington Community Action Network: $516,250 · OtherWashington Community Action NetworkEBONY COLLECTIVE COALITION: $350,750 · OtherEBONY COLLECTIVE COALITIONWASHINGTON COUNTY IGNITE ACTION FUND: $147,500 · Other+32 more: $1,301,715 · Other+32 moreBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $1,139,500 · Civil RightsBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES O…IMAGINE BLACK: $550,000 · Civil RightsIMAGINE BLACKNAYA ACTION FUND: $541,000 · Civil RightsNAYA ACTION FUNDFLORIDA RISING INC: $450,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCONEAMERICA VOTES: $408,500 · Civil RightsONEAMERICA VOTES+7 more: $185,527 · Civil Rights+7 moreACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $1,743,070 · Arts & CultureACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA …APANO: $778,350 · Arts & CultureAPANO+2 more: $14,500 · Arts & CultureLatino Network Action Fund: $442,986 · Community ImprovementWashington Progress Alliance: $49,000 · Community ImprovementNonprofit Association of Oregon: $24,000 · Community ImprovementNorth Star Action Center: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementSEEDING JUSTICE: $271,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyConsejo Hispano: $92,000 · Human ServicesEUVALCREE: $87,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesSTREET ROOTS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJOIN: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,700 · Human ServicesMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $97,500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $44,100 · Youth Development
Other$4,383,348Civil Rights$3,274,527Arts & Culture$2,535,920Community Improvement$541,986Philanthropy$277,000Human Services$270,700Youth Development$194,100

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 budgetACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $1,743,070 over 7y, 16% of budgetBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $1,139,500 over 7y, 81% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $843,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAPANO: $778,350 over 7y, 88% of budgetOregonians United Against Profiling: $620,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetUNITE OREGON ACTION: $603,633 over 6y, 77% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK: $550,000 over 6y, 85% of budgetNAYA ACTION FUND: $541,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetWashington Community Action Network: $516,250 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $450,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetONEAMERICA VOTES: $408,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE: $271,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSAFETY AND JUSTICE OREGON: $132,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $97,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $94,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetConsejo Hispano: $92,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetEUVALCREE: $87,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST WASHINGTON REGIONAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetLETS TALK DIVERSITY COALITION INC LETS TALK DIVERSITY COALITION: $72,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetHEALTH CARE COALITION OF SOUTHERN OREGON INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $52,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPortlanders for Charter Reform: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetOregonians for Slavery Abolition: $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetWashington Progress Alliance: $49,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $44,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON DONOR ALLIANCE: $37,470 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetEAST COUNTY RISING ACTION FUND: $36,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCAUSA OF OREGON: $32,804 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWESTERN STATES STRATEGIES: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBASIC RIGHTS OREGON: $28,557 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetNEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK: $28,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetYes for Real Community Oversight of Police: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNonprofit Association of Oregon: $24,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKAIROSPDX: $23,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNorth Star Action Center: $20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetYes for Portland Clean Energy Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Pride Foundation: $14,557 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $12,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHere Together: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTREET ROOTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOIN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $8,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 Foun…Seeding JusticeMeyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Inatai FoundationUnited Way of the Col…Onpoint Community Cre…Social Justice Fund N…Careoregon IncMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Ford Family Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Urban League of Portland Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Health Care Coalition of Southern Oregon Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
  • Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
  • Euvalcree: 18% of income from government
  • Latino Network: 15% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Latino Community Association: 11% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Association of Oregon: 6% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Join: 4% of income from government
  • El Centro Nw: 1% of income from government
  • Basic Rights Education Fund: 0% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 72 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 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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