Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR
NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $728,589 to it, the largest being WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SNOHOMISH COUNTY ($388,937). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $898k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $729k
- Net assets
- $866k
What Northwest Innovation Resource Ctr does
Mission
Nwirc is dedicated to creating economic opportunity and jobs through innovation. The nwirc accelerates early-stage startup companies and their rate of success through mentorship, resources, and accountability. Though the nwirc provides assistance to all early-stage startup companies, they have particular focus on the renewable resource technologies and product inventors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1. Completed renovation and opened innovation center (irc lab-swift). 2. Collaborating with multiple organizations and government groups to engage our service area in establishing the sustainable aviation fuel industry in northwest washington state. 3. Supported the startup of a maritime innovation center in blaine wa.
$416,192 spent$300,787 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $416,192.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $407k to $847k (+108%).
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: 2018 31% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 42% · 2023 49% · 2024 37% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Andrew Buchan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $40k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR’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 INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 63% · 2020 79% · 2021 50% · 2022 71% · 2023 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
97% of NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $566k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$566k
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 INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR: 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 INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR?
- NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $728,589 to it, the largest being WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SNOHOMISH COUNTY ($388,937). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $728,589 in grants to NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR?
- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SNOHOMISH COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $388,937 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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