Oregon · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES
NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,071 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($205,568). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $522k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $768k
- Net assets
- $843k
What Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides does
Mission
The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) works to protect community and environmental health and inspire the use of ecologically sound solutions to reduce the use of pesticides.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy Food and Farms: We supported historically underserved producers in arid Eastern Oregon by conducting habitat assessments, developing customized plans, and completing on-the-ground habitat installations in challenging Great Basin conditions. The project focused on reducing barriers for Tribal producers, beginning farmers and small-scale landowners. These sites used non-herbicide site preparation and maintenance methods improving the habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects in landscapes with limited water and high invasive pressure. Additionally, we created a two-part webinar series on Organic Wild Crop Harvest Certification, supporting land management professionals and individuals in becoming certified wild crop harvesters. These trainings equipped participants to pursue certification and promoted sustainable harvesting practices. There were 300 plus viewers of Wild Crop Harvest Certificate trainings. There were 5 pollinator and beneficial insect habitat installations. We planted 800 drought adapted native plants.
$119,045 spent$550 earned by the program32% of program spendingHealthy People and Communities: We produced 26 episodes of our Spanish language radio show "Raices Resiliientes: Voces del Campo" (Resilient Roots: Voices from the fields), in 2025, covering topics like pesticide exposure, climate impacts and risks, environmental health and workers rights. We also continue to expand outreach and education efforts around nitrate contamination in groundwater. This initiative supported undeserved rural families through in-person, culturally responsive education and testing support. We hosted conversations with local health authorities and experts on the Radio Show and offered support interpreting the Mayam Mam language to the Guatemalan community present at events. We had 13,000 radio listeners of live broadcasts and 26 episodes of our radio show, 777 bilingual outreach packets on protecting waters, we provided 15 well water testing kits, 3 languages in which we provided written or verbal education, and 100 plus people who received information on medical benefits and assistance.
$184,937 spent50% of program spendingHealthy Wildlife and Water: We advanced pesticide pollution prevention across Washington's Columbia River Basis through the Clean, Drain, Dry (CDD) campaign, an effort aimed at stopping the spread of aquatic invasive species and reducing reliance on toxic treatments like copper-based pesticides. Outreach strengthened awareness of aquatic invasive species prevention and non-toxic stewardship practices. We also opposed SB 5915 this year, a bill that would have extended a hazardous chemical tax exemption, as well as successfully advocating for the passage of SB 5972, which bans the use of residential neonicotinoids, essential for reducing pesticide drift and runoff and protecting freshwater ecosystems. Additionally, we made significant progress promoting farm worker health across Central Washington. Through health fairs and active partnerships with regional clinics, we directly engaged over 220 community members and distributed materials focused on recognizing and preventing pesticide exposure. 350 people received Spanish/English well water safety resources. There were 204,000 visitors to our website to receive resources.
$69,402 spent19% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $373,384.
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 $402k to $873k (+117%).
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 20% · 2021 50% · 2022 21% · 2023 48% · 2024 20% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $90k → $111k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES’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 CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 32% · 2019 77% · 2020 39% · 2021 41% · 2022 44% · 2023 39% — 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
62% of NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k 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
NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES is better cushioned than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $368k on record — $225k federal, $142k state.
- Department of Agriculture$195k
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$142k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$756
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 NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES?
- NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES (Oregon) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $768,071 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($205,568). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $768,071 in grants to NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $205,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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