Oregon · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION
NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,198,500 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($4,050,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $69M
What Northwest Health Foundation does
Mission
Northwest Health Foundation seeks to advance, support, and promote health in oregon and southwest washington. By providing grants to initiatives, forming partnerships with health and community leaders, and advocating for policy change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Northwest Health Foundation's (nwhf's) civic health initiative provides general operating support, capacity building and technical assistance to organizations to give them the tools to support strong, enduring civic engagement in their communities to shape policies for good health.
$1,343,352 spentof which $124,000 as grants69% of program spendingNorthwest Health Foundation (nwhf) provides sponsorships and support to community-led efforts that share the foundation's equity priorities (race/ethnicity, including immigrant and refugee identification; geography and disability) but are smaller requests that do not fit within a major programmatic area. These awards are for community events, fundraisers, learning opportunities and conferences.
$432,322 spentof which $227,057 as grants22% of program spendingNonprofit modernization act - in partnership with the nonprofit association of oregon, nwhf has built a coalition across oregon to propose and advocate for improvements to the government contracting process with nonprofts and directly impact wages.
$158,443 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,934,117.
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.
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 $61M to $69M (+12%).
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.
58% of NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Jesse Beason
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $949k → $700k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northwest Health Foundation Fund II). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTHWEST HEALTH 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$1.5M
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 HEALTH 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Philanthrophy Center LLC · disregarded
- Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST HEALTH 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,198,500 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($4,050,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $4,198,500 in grants to NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION 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 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