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LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center
LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,064 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $84k
What LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center does
Mission
Education and research
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Research and public education on contamination at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, including commenting on cleanup plans and agreements. Research and comments include focus on potential exposures to contamination and assessing human health and ecological risks from contamination; and potential impacts from leaking High Level Nuclear Waste tanks. Research and education on risks with special attention to the risks to Native Americans exercising Treaty rights to utilize resources and to live along the Columbia River. Participation in the Hanford Advisory Board, which informs research and is part of our comment program. Extensive research and comments on numerous highly complex proposals informed our development of comment guides and preparation of workshops for the public.
$45,504 spent47% of program spendingProviding law, public health (MPH) and undergraduate students with education, training and externships in environmental cleanup, environmental health and assessing health and environmental effects, with an emphasis on protecting populations with greatest risks related to Hanford. Educate students on cleanup, risk assessment, public health and tribal law topics, including full time summer law student program. Students collaborate with affected Tribes in developing comments on cleanup plans and risk, and also participate in public education. Promote open government in Washington State including training students in open government law, public outreach with coalition for open government. Research and education on public records and open government.
$45,000 spent47% of program spendingConducting workshops and public meetings along with educational programming at events to educate and involve the public in Hanford cleanup decisions. Held workshops and developed guides for the public on our research relating to High Level Nuclear Waste tank cleanup program, Hanford Building 324 cleanup plans and risks, exposure risks and Hanford Cleanup Strategic Plan. Prepared guides and workshops to assist the public to comment on High Level Waste cleanup, 324 Building, Hanford Cleanup 5 Year Strategic Plan. Our outreach, with "comment guides" (previously called 'citizens' guides") to commenting (reviewed for accuracy by Washington State and other experts) and workshops were responsible for generating hundreds of comments and emails to officials. Participation in other public forums and assisting Tribes and other high risk populations in educational outreach.
$6,000 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,504.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $146k to $85k (−42%).
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.
100% of LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Gerald Pollet
Executive Director, Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $12k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center’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
LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k 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
LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center's revenue fell 23% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center?
- LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,064 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,650). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $138,064 in grants to LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $78,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR WASHINGTON SCHOOL Heart of America NW Research Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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