Oregon · Nonprofit
EDUCATION NORTHWEST
EDUCATION NORTHWEST (Oregon) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,395,763 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,495,126). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Education Northwest does
Mission
To improve educational results for children, youth and adults by providing research and development assistance in delivering high-quality educational programs. The organization provides research and development assistance to education, government, community agencies, business and labor.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educational research, development, evaluation, dissemination, training and technical assistance activities for the us government, various state, local, and intermediate agencies.
$10,426,973 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,426,973.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $19M (+69%).
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: 2018 51% · 2019 43% · 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 2022 34% · 2023 7% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of EDUCATION NORTHWEST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Jessica Johnson
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $145k → $673k.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 EDUCATION 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
EDUCATION NORTHWEST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 EDUCATION NORTHWEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 42% · 2019 34% · 2020 31% · 2021 56% · 2022 29% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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
30% of EDUCATION NORTHWEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
EDUCATION NORTHWEST draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $961k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
EDUCATION NORTHWEST's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 269 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding EDUCATION NORTHWEST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50.2M on record — $44.3M federal, $5.9M state.
- Department of Education$37.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$4.2M
- National Science Foundation$3.0M
- OR$5.3M
- MA$300k
- CT$250k
- NJ$41k
- FL$189
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EDUCATION 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATION 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 EDUCATION NORTHWEST?
- EDUCATION NORTHWEST (Oregon) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,395,763 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,495,126). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION NORTHWEST have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $6,395,763 in grants to EDUCATION NORTHWEST, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION NORTHWEST?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,495,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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