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NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC

NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being CHARLES WENTZ CARTER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$2k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$6k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Northwest Schoolhouseinc does

Mission

To provide financial interface between projects for the restoration and/or maintaince of historically and culturally significant buildings.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

To provide financial interface between projects for the restoration and or maintaince of historically and culturally significant buildings.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($202) Net assets 100 ($4k)2018 Revenue 79 ($2k) Expenses 651 ($1k) Net assets 121 ($5k)2019 Revenue 165 ($5k) Expenses 2140 ($4k) Net assets 128 ($5k)2020 Revenue 58 ($2k) Expenses 571 ($1k) Net assets 140 ($6k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (58)Expenses (571)Net assets (140)Peer revenue range

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 $7k to $6k (−15%).

$6k
$7k
$7k
$6k
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$884
’18
$303
’19
$472
’20
61
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed3333
Joined·+0+2+0
No longer listed·020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC’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

NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,624 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · above the median
Months of reserve60.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 65%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC: 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 SCHOOLHOUSEINC?
NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being CHARLES WENTZ CARTER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,500 in grants to NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC?
CHARLES WENTZ CARTER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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