Oregon · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES
NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES (Oregon) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,768,201 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,071,840). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Northwest Housing Alternatives does
Mission
Northwest Housing Alternatives (nha)s mission is to create opportunity through housing. Nha develops, builds, and manages affordable rental housing for families, seniors, and people with disabilities across oregon. These homes help families live healthy and stable lives, allow older adults to age in place, and give people with special needs a dignified residence. Nha is always working to enhance our portfolios sustainability and works closely with local partners to drive innovations in our field. Along with providing affordable housing, nha provides services that connect residents to critical health and community resources, work to prevent homelessness before it begins, and offer emergency shelter and services for families experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Consolidated housing subsidiaries - nha creates and maintains attractive, affordable, and financially healthy rental housing. This section summarizes the operations of the consolidated entities including three lihprha projects, eight former lihtc properties, and five entities formed to hold or develop new projects.
$7,819,891 spent$6,359,853 earned by the program40% of program spendingProperty development nha is a leading developer of affordable rental communities and community facilities throughout oregon. Nha combines federal, state, and local government programs with financing from banks, private investors, and charitable foundations in order to develop and preserve affordable housing. During 2024, nha completed construction on 65 new apartment homes. As of december 31,2024, nha had 92 new apartment homes under construction.
$1,665,380 spent$3,185,634 earned by the program9% of program spendingHomeless intervention services - this department includes annie ross housing services and pathways. Annie ross housing services (arhs) - arhs provides housing navigation, barriers removal, rental assistance, ongoing case management, and shelter services to clackamas county families who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. During 2024, arhs provided programming to 85 families. Pathways - pathways is a state-supported rental assistance program that provides case management and housing support for individuals living with severe and persistent mental illness (spmi) who are at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness. The pathways program supports a caseload of 30 households at any given time. Pathways has a staff of 2.0 fte and a contracted peer support position through mental health association of oregon (mhaoo). During 2024, pathways provided programming to 33 households.
$2,804,003 spentof which $1,187,939 as grants14% of program spendingResident services - nha links residents of multi-family and senior properties across the state to services that keep them stable in their housing and connected to their community. Core services include eviction prevention, information and referral, and onsite programming targeted to a specific building's population. During 2024, resident services responded to 2,828 requests for services, and coordinated 697 onsite events for nha residents. 93% of residents maintained or improved their housing stability as a result of resident services interventions. Additionally, the department continued an individual development account (ida) program in partnership with casa of oregon. This program provides nha residents with a matched savings account that can then be used to fund post-secondary education, purchase of their first home, start of a retirement savings account, or purchase of a vehicle. Group homes - nha owns and manages 53 group homes with a total of 238 units across oregon. The group homes serve individuals living with developmental disabilities, chronic mental illness, and individuals in recovery. The homes are leased to licensed care providers. Asset management - nha provides…
$7,184,221 spentof which $41,409 as grants$2,355,154 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,473,495.
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 2018 to 2019, from $46M to $61M (+33%).
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 15% · 2018 18% · 2019 15% · 2020 15% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $181k → $1.0M.
8 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HOUSING ALTERNATIVES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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 HOUSING ALTERNATIVES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 HOUSING ALTERNATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 40% · 2019 41% · 2020 33% · 2021 20% · 2022 29% · 2023 38% — 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
48% of NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
78% of NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $842k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES is better cushioned than half of the 818 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record — $1.5M federal, $5k state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$5k
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 HOUSING ALTERNATIVES
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 79 related entities
- 333 Associated LLC · disregarded
- Autumn Park Gp LLC · disregarded
- Charleston Gpllc · disregarded
- Foster Gp LLC · disregarded
- The Headwaters Gp LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES?
- NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES (Oregon) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,768,201 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,071,840). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $5,768,201 in grants to NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,071,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES 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.
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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 57 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