Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH
NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,880 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($62,880). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Northwest Institute of Research does
Mission
The Northwest Institute of Research, a nonprofit research and technical assistance organization, partners with public and private human service organizations and their stakeholders to build and operate high quality, accountable, and results-driven programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Management and operation of research and social service programs with a focus on early childhood. Program funding is distributed to qualified organizations. The 20242025 annual monitoring review of early learning resource center (elrc) region 1 confirmed that all goals and performance standards were met. In july 2024, nwir, inc. Assumed management of elrc region 2.collectively, elrc regions 1 and 2 distributed more than $41 million to child care programs on behalf of subsidy-eligible families, as well as directly to providers through grant funding. The regional leadership council convened virtually to foster collaborative discussions focused on enhancing services and activities for children and families. Topics included strategies to strengthen health and safety practices and to expand social-emotional support for children and providers.
$45,171,614 spentof which $3,275,115 as grants$46,126,918 earned by the program99% of program spendingProvides knowledge, skills, and financial assistance supporting families to access early learning services, assisting providers to elevate their quality star rating. Collaborating with community partners to connect families to resources to support their child's growth and development with the goal of improving the quality of early care and education.
$294,384 spent1% of program spendingThe jam (joyce's amazing miracle) team was originally created as a support team for dr. Joyce a. Miller during her battle with glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. As part of her post-surgical recovery, dr. Miller transformed her jam team into a foundation under her non-profit corporation. The jam team will be a driving force in realizing dr. Miller's vision that all parents should be able to go to work every day knowing that their children are cared for and receiving the best early childhood education and child care possible. The jam team will accomplish this vision through a number of initiatives, ranging from assisting needy families with scholarships to the establishment of miracle spaces and miracle micro-centers.
$7,377 spentof which $7,377 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,473,375.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.8M to $11M (+120%).
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 96% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Elana Como
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH’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.
Where its funders are
100% of NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 1 related entity
- Keystone University Research Corp · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH: 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 INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH?
- NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,880 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($62,880). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $62,880 in grants to NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH?
- ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 1 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