Oregon · Nonprofit
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education (Oregon) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,210,313 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($708,837). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $420k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $118k
What Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education does
Mission
To amplify the work of alternative radio, print, film, and strategic media makers in the Pacific Northwest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Keys Beats Bars - An arts-integrated, culturally and trama-responsive project, providing audiovisual and holistic music programming for justice-involved, incarcerated, and marginalized youth in Oregon. We work with a range of music artists who raise awareness of cultural music and support youth in skills building and alternative forms of healing. In 2025, Keys Beats Bars served approximately 75 underserved youth in Oregon ages 14-25, offering general service hours 5 hours per week and provided approximately 150 events, workshops and classes.
$352,361 spentof which $373,708 as grants93% of program spendingFiscal Sponsorships - NAAME supported various organizations that all provide a wide range of alternative perspectives and educational advocacy, with a particular emphasis on the voices of the marginalized. Focus areas ranged from antiracism to gender liberation, from prisoners to the unhoused, from international solidarity to community youth organizing - and, of course, music and performance.
$25,501 spentof which $46,070 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $377,862.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $126k (+132%).
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: 2020 34% · 2021 22% · 2024 74% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $33k → $234k.
16 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 49% · 2022 52% · 2023 49% — 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
36% of Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
64% of Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education'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 $793k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: 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 Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education?
- Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education (Oregon) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,210,313 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($708,837). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,210,313 in grants to Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education?
- TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $708,837 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 33 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