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Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

The mission of the organization is to assist northwest tribes to improve the health status and quality of life of member tribes and indian people in their delivery of culturally appropriate and holistic health care.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$604k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Civil Rights$5.4MHuman Services$2.9MHealth$1.9MArts & Culture$696kEducation$461kCommunity Improvement$307kScience & Tech$216kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+24 grants · $8.6M
$174,772
Median grant
16
States reached
$291M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMESTOWN S'KLALLAM TRIBE$603,633
PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM TR$560,716
COQUILLE INDIAN TRIBE$459,119
Individual grant recipient$433,000
STILLAGUAMISH TRIBE OF INDIANS$418,633
SOUTHERN PLAINS TRIBAL HEALTH BOARD$410,073
ITCA$397,284
KOOTENAI TRIBE OF IDAHO$372,336
CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF COOS$363,000
SAUK-SUIATTLE INDIAN TRIBE$363,000
SQUAXIN ISLAND TRIBE$363,000
KALISPEL TRIBE OF INDIANS$363,000
SHOALWATER BAY INDIAN TRIBE$363,000
CARDEA SERVICES$328,326
LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM TRIBE$312,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JANNUS INC: $60k → 8%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

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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 47 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
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Total granted

$22M
$62k

Still filing today

9%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SP
    Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $783k · revenue +13%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $405k · revenue +4%
  • HU
    HERITAGE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $49k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • ST
    SHOSHONE-BANNOCK TRIBES OF THE FORT
    one grant, 2024 · $49k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
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.

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Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
2
Northwestern Health Sciences University

Northwestern health sciences university prepares and serves the next generation of professionals and leaders to become vital contributors to the delivery and advancement of health care. our mission is accomplished through educational…

Education
3
Red Lake Nation College

To provide excellent higher education that is grounded in the ojibwe language and culture of the red lake nation.

Education
4
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
5
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
6
Cankdeska Cikana Community College

To provide higher education opportunities, at the community college level, including vocational and technical training. as a tribal community college, we emphasize the teaching and learning of dakota culture and language toward the…

Education
7
Institute of American Indian Arts & Alaska Native

To provide education and instruction in the scholarly study and preservation of indian art to empower creativity and leadership in native arts and cultures through higher education, life-long learning and outreach.

Education
8
Alaska Native Health Board

The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.

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9
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University

The lac courte oreilles ojibwe university mission is to provide anishinaabe communities with post-secondary and continuing education while advancing the language, culture, and history of the ojibwe. in carrying out the mission, the lac…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salish Kootenai College Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Plains Tribal Health Board 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

9 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. 9 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COEUR D'ALENE TRIBE: $852,744 · OtherNCUIH: $787,062 · Other+69 more: $21,910,244 · Other+69 moreSouthern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: $782,519 · HealthCARDEA SERVICES: $635,190 · HealthLines for Life: $60,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $405,263 · EducationSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $60,000 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $48,500 · Education+1 more: $11,000 · EducationJANNUS INC: $60,000 · Human Services
Other$23,550,050Health$1,477,709Education$524,763Human Services$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: $782,519 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCARDEA SERVICES: $635,190 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $405,263 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJANNUS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLines for Life: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $48,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CARDEA SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

First Nations Development InstituteCO29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Inatai Foundation · Na'ah Illahee Fund · National Indian Health Board · Potlatch Fund · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Seattle Foundation · Delta Dental of Washington · Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs · Seeding Justice · Northwest Harvest Emm

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 Portland Area Indian Health Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 83%
  • Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: 83% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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