California · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER
NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,622 to it, the largest being SEEDING JUSTICE ($45,000). 1 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 FY2019
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Northwest Forest Worker Center does
Mission
Northwest Forest Worker Center is a nonprofit organization that empowers forest workers and harvesters of non-timber forest products (mushrooms, berries, floral greens, etc.) in northern California, Oregon and Washington to improve their lives and livelihoods. The mission of the Northwest Forest Worker Center is to promote forest stewardship that is respectful of all workers and harvesters and the land.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Training Forest Workers in Occupational Safety and HealthIn 2019 we developed a guide for training workers in the forestry services industry in preventing musculoskeletal disorders. We developed Spanish and English versions of the guide. The guide is designed for low-literacy audiences, is culturally appropriate for Spanish-speaking immigrants from Latin America, and incorporates interactive exercises to engage trainees in discussions about musculoskeletal disorders and how to prevent them. It is based on state-of-the-art principles of adult education.Total training numbers for 2019 were 298 workers trained in 526.5 hours of training. This breaks down as follows.141 workers trained in preventing slips, trips and falls in 235.5 hours of training. We used a guide we developed under a previous Oregon OSHA grant to conduct these trainings during the first two quarters of the grant year while the MSD guide was under development. 157 workers trained in preventing MSDs in 291 hours of training. Evaluation of TrainingsTo evaluate the trainings on preventing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) we called a small sample of the workers who had participated in trainings during the previous 6…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2018 to 2019, from $134k to $52k (−61%).
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: 2017 53% · 2018 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $41k → $12k.
2 of 5 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 FOREST WORKER CENTER’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 FOREST WORKER CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 FOREST WORKER CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 35% · 2019 100% — 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
52% of NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of Labor$75k
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 FOREST WORKER CENTER
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER: 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 FOREST WORKER CENTER?
- NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,622 to it, the largest being SEEDING JUSTICE ($45,000). 1 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 FOREST WORKER CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $124,622 in grants to NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER?
- SEEDING JUSTICE is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST FOREST WORKER CENTER 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 5 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