Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES
NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,997,452 to it, the largest being ADOPTION EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION INC DBA NATIONAL ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ($1,777,868). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Northwest Resource Associates does
Mission
Northwest Resource Associates provides family recruitment, family support, youth engagement, education, and digital communication. We inspire and prepare foster and adoptive families to parent youth living in foster care. We support families of all types. We listen and provide information, insight, and connection to services and engage and empower youth to tell their own stories and shape their futures. Northwest Resource Associates also designs and develops user-centered digital products including apps, websites, training, and communications that inspire, inform and empower.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through the alaska center for resource families, we recruit, train, and support foster and adoptive parents throughout the state. Https://acrf.org
$1,681,655 spent$1,655,170 earned by the program34% of program spendingIn association with the national adoption association, we manage digital media for the national adoptuskids project. We develop and administer the national photo listing, which connects families who have been approved to adopt with children and youth who need permanent families. Our related websites and channels inform and inspire prospective and current foster and adoptive families and provide information and resources to child welfare professionals. Https://adoptuskids.org
$857,201 spent17% of program spendingThrough the oregon post-adoption resource center, we support thousands of families, state workers, and community partners each year. Our services for adoptive families and adoptees include a specialty therapeutic library and a neurofeedback program present in thirteen counties and growing. Our services for professionals include two adoption-competency training programs.
$1,175,633 spent24% of program spendingThrough the northwest adoption exchange (https://nwae.org) and the oregon adoption resource exchange (https://oare-kids.org), we inform and inspire potential adoptive families and connect licensed families to to children and youth in our region. In washington, we champion youth engagement, coaching child welfare professionals to involve youth in permanency planning and working directly with individual youth to create in-depth profiles multimedia, youth-led projects where youth in care share about themselves with potential families. Https://nwae.org
$1,282,325 spent$1,106,831 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,996,814.
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 $815k to $1.2M (+53%).
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 95% · 2019 92% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Anna Marshall
Executive director
Board chair
Logan Mcinerney
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $35k → $109k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 RESOURCE ASSOCIATES’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 RESOURCE ASSOCIATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
100% 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 RESOURCE ASSOCIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 61% · 2023 40% — 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
60% of NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 73% 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 RESOURCE ASSOCIATES draws 100% 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. $30k 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.
Against its field
NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.7M on record.
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$7.6M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$45k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$44k
- PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$4k
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$1k
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 RESOURCE ASSOCIATES
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
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES: 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 RESOURCE ASSOCIATES?
- NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES (Washington) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,997,452 to it, the largest being ADOPTION EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION INC DBA NATIONAL ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ($1,777,868). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,997,452 in grants to NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES?
- ADOPTION EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION INC DBA NATIONAL ADOPTION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,777,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST RESOURCE ASSOCIATES 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 11 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