How much does The Northwest Fund for the Environment give?

The Northwest Fund for the Environment reported 40 grants totaling $373,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Northwest Fund for the Environment fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (86%), Animals (3%), Community Improvement (3%).

Who are The Northwest Fund for the Environment's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Columbia Riverkeeper ($128k), Futurewise ($126k), Re Sources ($124k).

Does The Northwest Fund for the Environment fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Northwest Fund for the Environment accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Northwest Fund for the Environment?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Seattle Foundation, The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment.

Where is The Northwest Fund for the Environment based?

The Northwest Fund for the Environment is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

The Northwest Fund for the Environment

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$373k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 40
Grants FY2025: 34
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 34; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $5.3M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Northwest Fund for the Environment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentOther

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
FY2025still arriving	37	$373k	8%
FY2024	34	$399k	0%
FY2023	34	$355k	3%
FY2022	29	$300k	28%
FY2021	26	$273k	31%
FY2020	26	$256k	31%
FY2019	25	$239k	40%
FY2018	25	$240k	72%

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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.

Environment$2.0MAnimals$79kCommunity Improvement$64kCrime & Legal$42kHousing & Shelter$40kPublic Benefit$20kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$19kOther$0

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
Columbia Riverkeeper	$128,000	7	1%
Futurewise	$126,400	7	2%
Re Sources	$124,000	9	1%
Center for Environmental Law & Policy	$109,500	8	14%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$99,000	6	2%
Hanford Challenge Corporation	$86,000	6	4%
Communities for a Healthy Bay	$81,000	6	3%
Western Environmental Law Center	$81,000	6	1%
Friends of the Earth	$79,000	6	0%
Resource Media	$79,000	7	0%

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All grantees of The Northwest Fund for the Environment by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Columbia Riverkeeper	$128,000	7	1%
Futurewise	$126,400	7	2%
Re Sources	$124,000	9	1%
Center for Environmental Law & Policy	$109,500	8	14%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$99,000	6	2%
Hanford Challenge Corporation	$86,000	6	4%
Communities for a Healthy Bay	$81,000	6	3%
Western Environmental Law Center	$81,000	6	1%
Friends of the Earth	$79,000	6	0%
Resource Media	$79,000	7	0%
Olympic Forest Coalition	$78,500	8	12%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund	$76,300	6	0%
Friends of the San Juans	$76,000	6	2%
Save Our Wild Salmon	$73,500	6	5%
Toxic-Free Future F/K/A Washington Toxics Coalition	$73,500	7	1%
The Surfrider Foundation	$73,500	7	0%
Wildearth Guardians	$71,000	6	0%
Okanogan Highlands Alliance	$71,000	6	4%
Transportation Choices Coalition	$71,000	6	1%
Cascade Forest Conservancy	$69,500	7	3%
Snake River Waterkeeper Inc	$68,000	7	9%
Wild Fish Conservancy	$68,000	6	1%
American Rivers Inc	$61,000	5	0%
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides	$56,000	5	4%
Puget Sound Sage	$50,000	5	1%
Front and Centered	$48,500	5	1%
Twin Harbors Waterkeeper	$43,000	4	7%
Center for Justice	$42,000	2	5%
Spokane Riverkeeper	$41,000	4	4%
American Whitewater	$41,000	4	1%
Trout Unlimited	$31,000	3	n/a
Our Children's Trust	$20,000	3	0%
Washington Wild	$19,500	6	1%
Young Women Empowered	$16,000	3	0%
Aboriginal Outfitters	$16,000	3	8%
Zero Waste Washington	$15,500	5	0%
Washington Progress Fund	$15,000	1	1%
Friends of Grays Harbor	$15,000	2	9%
Oneamerica	$15,000	2	0%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$13,000	2	0%
Orca Network	$13,000	1	1%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Northwest Environmental Advocates	$10,000	1	7%
Not an Alternative Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Okanogan Land Trust	$10,000	2	0%
Brinnon Group	$9,000	3	n/a
Friends of Snoqualmie Valley Trail and River	$9,000	3	29%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$9,000	1	0%
Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group	$8,000	2	0%
Pilchuck Audubon Society	$5,500	2	3%
Center for Responsible Forestry	$5,000	1	2%
Kettle Range Conservation Group	$5,000	1	n/a
Thurston Climate Action Team	$5,000	1	2%
Coastal Interpretive Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Jefferson Land Trust	$5,000	1	n/a
Geos Institute	$5,000	1	1%
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG	$5,000	1	0%
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment	$5,000	1	1%
Institute for Washingtons Future	$5,000	1	0%
Columbia Institute for Water Policy	$3,500	1	n/a
Kooskooskie Commons	$3,000	1	n/a
Methow Valley Citizens Council	$3,000	1	n/a
Center for Diversity and the Environment	$3,000	1	1%
Native Fish Society Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Shunpike	$3,000	1	0%
Friends of Pierce County	$3,000	1	n/a
Alliance for a Just Society	$2,500	1	0%
Heritage University	$1,000	1	0%
Philanthropy Northwest	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

The Northwest Fund for the Environment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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 60.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA56× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Seattle Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · The Bullitt Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Burning Foundation · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · The Russell Family Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Harder Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Grousemont 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 The Northwest Fund for the Environment

How much does The Northwest Fund for the Environment give?: The Northwest Fund for the Environment reported 40 grants totaling $373,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Northwest Fund for the Environment fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (86%), Animals (3%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are The Northwest Fund for the Environment's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Columbia Riverkeeper ($128k), Futurewise ($126k), Re Sources ($124k).
Does The Northwest Fund for the Environment fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Northwest Fund for the Environment accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Northwest Fund for the Environment?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Seattle Foundation, The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment.
Where is The Northwest Fund for the Environment based?: The Northwest Fund for the Environment is based in WA.