Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP
NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,186 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST ($701,329). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $403k
What Northwest Natural Resource Group does
Mission
To strengthen the ecological and economic vitality of northwest forests and communities by connecting people with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to steward their lands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Northwest Natural Resource Group helps landowners to practice ecological forestry on their land. Dedicated to promoting a sustainable, environmentally sound economy in the pacific northwest, we work primarily on forestlands owned and managed by private landowners, smaller forest product companies, local governments, sovereign indian nations, and non-profit organizations. Our primary tools to accomplish this mission are forest planning and management services; educational workshops; group certification under the auspices of the forest stewardship council (r) on ownerships totaling 190,000 acres in oregon and washington; and expertise in connecting landowners with sources of landowner assistance.
$887,602 spent$566,118 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $887,602.
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 2023 to 2024, from $528k to $1.3M (+151%).
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 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 24% · 2022 16% · 2023 16% · 2024 28% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Seth Zuckerman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $47k → $229k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP’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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 96% · 2019 38% · 2020 36% · 2021 63% · 2022 28% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $97k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$97k
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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP: 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 NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP?
- NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,186 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST ($701,329). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,737,186 in grants to NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP?
- SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST is the largest funder on record, with $701,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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