Oregon · Nonprofit
DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST
DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,622,920 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,206,605). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $908k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Donate Life Northwest does
Mission
Donate Life Northwest's mission is to save lives and improve health through the promotion of organ, eye, and tissue donation. Since 1975, Donate Life Northwest (dlnw) has aligned and supported collaborative partnerships with organ, eye, and tissue donation agencies, transplant centers, and educators. Recognized nationally for the achievement of registering more than 2.5 million of oregon's licensed drivers, program efforts focus on educating and motivating citizens of oregon and sw washington through our volunteers, high school and college outreach, social media, community organizations and department of motor vehicles to make, register, and share their donation decision.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth education: provides education on organ, eye, and tissue donation in an age-appropriate way for audiences from seventh grade all the way up to college level. Donate Life Northwest forges a critical link between medical professionals and educators, providing curriculum-based learning, classroom presentations, student projects, and many other resources. The curriculum is designed to explain donation in an educational, interactive, and inspirational way to cultivate a pro-donation community throughout the pacific northwest. Educational resources can be found on gorecycleyourself.com. In fy25, we reached over 8,200 students through our youth education program.
$98,265 spent20% of program spendingCommunity engagement: builds community and support among donor families, living donors, transplant recipients, people on the waitlist, and donation supporters through events, media resources, volunteer opportunities, networking, and mentoring in order to promote organ, eye, and tissue donation. Collaborates with businesses, faith communities, civic and community organizations, and others to provide thoughtful, educational, and culturally- and linguistically-specific outreach to the public. Community engagement resources can be found on donatelifenw.org and on facebook, instagram, and other social media outlets. In fy25, we reached nearly 10,000 people through 149 different community engagement events and activities.
$171,575 spent36% of program spendingLiving kidney donation initiatives: provides educational programs and materials to help educate more end-stage renal disease patients on transplant and living donation. These programs include a workshop for patients who are listed for a transplant to explore living donation, and various online and printed materials. Additionally works to increase awareness around living donation in the general public through events, media, and a volunteer-run community group. In fy25, we reached over 1,200 members of the public to educate and encourage living kidney donation.
$58,716 spent12% of program spendingVolunteer program: Donate Life Northwest's volunteers are the heart of our mission, sharing their powerful personal stories to inspire others to register as organ, eye, and tissue donors. Their experiences-whether as recipients, donor families, living donors, or advocates-bring the message of donation to life in communities across oregon and southwest washington. Through outreach events, school presentations, and community partnerships, our trained volunteers build understanding, foster compassion, and motivate thousands to say "yes" to donation. In fy25, we had 150 active volunteers who gave 1071 hours of service.
$151,134 spent32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $479,690.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+22%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 14% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Patrice Morris-Ball
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $311k → $345k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 84% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 78% · 2022 85% · 2023 85% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
70% of DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $334k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST?
- DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST (Oregon) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,622,920 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,206,605). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,622,920 in grants to DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,206,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing