Wyoming · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION
NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,203 to it, the largest being MARY E HOUSEL FDN ($288,589). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Northwest College Foundation does
Mission
By securing and managing private gifts, the Northwest College Foundation inspires confidence, involvement and financial commitment of alumni, friends of the college, and nwc employees to foster educational excellence for northwest college students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation receives gifts of cash and noncash items with designated purposes. The items are then passed on to the college as it meets the desinated purpose.
$751,953 spentof which $681,802 as grants$700,754 earned by the program32% of program spendingIncome from endowed funds is given to northwest college to pay scholarships and work study to individuals selected by the college that meet donor specifications
$1,586,292 spentof which $1,586,292 as grants68% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,338,245.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $49M to $60M (+23%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Shelby Wetzel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $147k → $99k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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 COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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 68% · 2018 36% · 2019 49% · 2020 27% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 21% — 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
67% of NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
54% of NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 COLLEGE FOUNDATION
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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Northwest College · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,157,203 to it, the largest being MARY E HOUSEL FDN ($288,589). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,157,203 in grants to NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- MARY E HOUSEL FDN is the largest funder on record, with $288,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing