Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM (Washington) receives grants from 392 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,579,330 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($11,537,130). 243 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 392
- Grants received
- $86M
- Net assets
- $87M
What Northwest Harvest Emm does
Mission
The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. The organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Northwest harvest collects food and cash donations to purchase and distribute food to frontline hunger relief programs and individuals at no charge. During the 2025 fiscal year, more than 19.3 million pounds of food was distributed. Highlights include: distribution - northwest harvest was part of the state of washington's coordinated response to increase food security and reduce access barriers.
$46,929,529 spentof which $30,377,799 as grants$1,917,393 earned by the program93% of program spendingAccess - we expanded access to rural communities, black, indigenous and people of color by serving additional areas and facilitated a cash-equivalent program with major corporate support and by adding various community based organizations (immigrant organizations, transitional housing sites, faith communities, shelters & clinics) in food deliveries in south king, pierce, yakima & spokane counties.
$3,047,752 spentof which $3,047,752 as grants6% of program spendingPublic policy - expanded access to school meals such that over half of all washington students can access school meals without cost or barriers, increased funding for a state food box program that supports black, indigenous, and other people of color owned farm and food businesses to provide food to communities with higher rates of hunger and food insecurity, secured a diaper subsidy for families with children in deepest poverty through tanf, and passed legislation to increase access for people to apply for public benefits in-person.
$253,314 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,230,595.
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 $59M to $90M (+53%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 6% · 2023 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Thomas L Reynolds
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Rachel Beda Md
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 74 funders to 153 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $9.7M.
52 of 392 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HARVEST EMM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 392 funders by total. 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 HARVEST EMM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
80% 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 HARVEST EMM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 19% · 2019 35% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM'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
NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 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 HARVEST EMM
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: 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 HARVEST EMM?
- NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM (Washington) receives grants from 392 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,579,330 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($11,537,130). 243 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM have?
- IRS filings report 392 organizations giving $85,579,330 in grants to NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM, 243 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM?
- THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,537,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM 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.
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 392 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