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Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund

Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,907,755 to it, the largest being Public Welfare Foundation Inc ($1,200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.4M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 95%

Against its field

Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($290k) Expenses 100 ($317k) Net assets 100 ($269k)2018 Revenue 224 ($649k) Expenses 152 ($483k) Net assets 162 ($435k)2019 Revenue 118 ($342k) Expenses 188 ($597k) Net assets 67 ($180k)2020 Revenue 476 ($1.4M) Expenses 244 ($773k) Net assets 330 ($887k)2021 Revenue 375 ($1.1M) Expenses 287 ($911k) Net assets 395 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 412 ($1.2M) Expenses 347 ($1.1M) Net assets 429 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 902 ($2.6M) Expenses 440 ($1.4M) Net assets 883 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 814 ($2.4M) Expenses 425 ($1.3M) Net assets 1307 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (814)Expenses (425)Net assets (1307)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
17
$166k
18
$255k
19
$607k
20
$175k
21
$93k
22
$1.2M
23
$1.0M
24
5.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $209k → $49k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 Employment Education and Defense Fund’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 Employment Education and Defense Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 68% · 2019 61% · 2020 79% · 2021 49% · 2022 49% · 2023 77%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

100% of Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

53% of Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
CA
VA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $299k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oregon

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

55%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Nwjp Action Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund?
Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,907,755 to it, the largest being Public Welfare Foundation Inc ($1,200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,907,755 in grants to Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund?
Public Welfare Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing