Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY
NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,889 to it, the largest being THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION ($1,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $289k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $299k
What Northwest Schooner Society does
Mission
To preserve the vessels, facilities, and skills of the Northwest's Maritime Heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration, maintenance, and operation of the historic Schooner Lavengro (a 100 year-old 63-foot wooden schooner). Training volunteers in the art of wooden boat maintenance, piloting, and safety on the water. Educating the public on the history and operation of the vessel via educational displays and charters. In 2025, the Schooner Lavengro operated free public sails every month, displayed the vessel with educational material at the Center for Wooden Boats year round, provided educational docenting, and trained members in rigging skills.
$22,216 spent$1,570 earned by the program27% of program spendingRestoration of the Burrows Island Lighthouse, keeper's homes, and surrounding grounds, for the preservation of maritime history, and eventual educational access by the public. Volunteers on the project learn to build using era-appropriate techniques and materials. Major 2025 accomplishments included improving foundations, installing a water system, significant repairs to windows, and the full transfer of the Lighthouse property over to the NWSS. The NWSS also trained volunteers, educated the public at the Port Townsend Farmers Market, gave multiple talks in Anacortes, and led 4 public tours of the property.
$60,885 spent73% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $94k to $299k (+217%).
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: 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $68.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SCHOONER SOCIETY’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 SCHOONER SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 SCHOONER SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
63% of NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313 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 SCHOONER SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY?
- NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,889 to it, the largest being THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION ($1,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,889 in grants to NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY?
- THE BUNGIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST SCHOONER SOCIETY 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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