Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,321,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,000,700). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Northwest Indian College Foundation does
Mission
The Northwest Indian College Foundation is committed to addressing the financial gap faced by students attending northwest indian college and assist them in realizing their goals and dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The northwestern college foundation provides scholarships and persistence funding to students attending northwest indian college.scholarships are awarded based on financial need, academic achievement, leadership and merit. Persistence funding includes emergency assistance awards and accounts receivable (ar) hold awards that help students remain enrolled, re-enter programs of study, and continue progressing toward degree or certification completion. Emergency assistance awards provide timely support for unseen hardships that could otherwise disrupt a student's education, including assistance with food, housing, transportation, childcare, technology, and other essential needs. Ar hold awards assist students with outstanding institutional balances that prevent registration or continued enrollment, enabling students to return to classes and regain academic momentum. These programs are designed to improve student retention, persistence, and completion outcomes by addressing immediate financial obstacles that disproportionally impact underserved and tribal communities. Through these programs, the foundation works to reduce financial barriers, increase student persistence, and support…
$598,231 spentof which $109,283 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $598,231.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $14M (+18%).
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.
71% of NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Barbara Lewis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $62k → $341k.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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 INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 34% · 2019 48% · 2020 41% · 2021 36% · 2022 79% · 2023 59% — 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
21% of NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
56% of NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $131.6M on record.
- Department of Education$49.9M
- Department of the Interior$47.0M
- National Science Foundation$15.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.6M
- Department of Agriculture$6.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$2.1M
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 INDIAN COLLEGE 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 INDIAN COLLEGE 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 INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,321,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,000,700). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,321,540 in grants to NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 29 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