Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3
NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3 (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,020,884 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($475,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $671k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $316k
What Northwest Credible Messengers 501c3 does
Mission
Our mission is to empower new and emerging black and brown community leaders, returning citizens and community-rooted organizations through capacity building teaching the tools to build a seat at the table, policy advocacy building acumen for lasting transformative change, and positive youth justice investing in the next generation of black and brown leadership.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive re-entry: providing basic needs and peer support to individuals re-entering into community.
$256,978 spent$12,512 earned by the program70% of program spendingYouth and young adults: providing peer support and behavioral health navigation to young people.
$111,933 spent$5,561 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $368,911.
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 $168k to $342k (+103%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $396k → $164k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3’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 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 63% · 2022 85% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,457 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,457 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3
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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3: 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 CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3?
- NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3 (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,020,884 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($475,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3 have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,020,884 in grants to NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST CREDIBLE MESSENGERS 501C3 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 4 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