Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL
NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,648 to it, the largest being BUILDING HOPE IMPACT FUND INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $-195302
What Northwest Passage High School does
Mission
Rekindling our hope, exploring our world, and seeking our path, while building our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Northwest Passage High School is a project-based learning charter school serving students in grades 9-12. The school utilizes progressive learning models for students to develop their critical thinking and decision making skills. The corner stone of our school is experiential learning based on the teachings of john dewey. We believe students learn best when they are allowed to be instrumental in the development of the projects they complete. Half the day is spent in instructor led thematic courses. The other half of the day students meet in a structured advisory program where they are coached to create meaning in the world through the development of student designed projects. All projects must meet state standards for graduation. Upon completion of their projects, students present at a community exposition of their final project before graduation is a senior transition project and digital portfolio.
$2,404,242 spent$9,020 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,404,242.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.8M to $2.2M (−23%).
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 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Board chair
Jason Olson
Chair/teacher
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $138.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL’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 PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 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
55% of NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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 PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $29k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Northwest Passage High School · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL?
- NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,648 to it, the largest being BUILDING HOPE IMPACT FUND INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $28,648 in grants to NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL?
- BUILDING HOPE IMPACT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST PASSAGE HIGH SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 5 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