California · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN
NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,517 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($160,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $796k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $449k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Northwest Ascending Campaign does
Mission
Build, coordinate, and provide teaching and training programs for Christian leaders
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of Ministry Institute: Organize teachers, coordinate teaching facilities, equipment, materials, and provide transportation, accommodation, food, and materials for the equipping of church leaders to better spirits, minds, and skills for church ministry.
$520,887 spentof which $5,700 as grants69% of program spendingPracticum of Evangelism and World Mission course: Develop strategies and programs, coordinate with local churches, and organize Gospel teams of coaches and interns to provide real-world learning experiences of evangelism for different settings of city, campus and village, and cross-culture short-term missions.
$91,012 spent12% of program spendingPracticum of church planting course: Train church leaders, form task forces, coordinate efforts and resources, and provide needed softwares, hardwares, and supervision to demonstrate to the students the practical process of church planting.
$81,467 spent11% of program spendingStudents ministries providing care, education, and outreach programs for k-12, colleges, orphanages, orphanage graduates, young leadership training, youth fellowship operations.
$58,760 spentof which $20,244 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $752,126.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $207k to $282k (+37%).
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 NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Andy Lin
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $119k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 ASCENDING CAMPAIGN’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
NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 ASCENDING CAMPAIGN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
52% of NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN'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 $215k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN has grown faster than half of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN?
- NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,517 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($160,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $448,517 in grants to NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing