Washington · Nonprofit
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,467,596 to it, the largest being EGTVEDT CHARITABLE TRUST SPECIAL 1 ($650,818). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Pacific Northwest Research Institute does
Mission
Pacific Northwest Research Institute (pnri), a nonprofit corporation, is an independent, biomedical research institute conducting basic and applied research aimed at understanding how health is maintained in the face of genetic and environmental risks associated with disease development. The scientific discoveries have applicability in a variety of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, neurological disorders, among many others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The metzger lab began research during fy25.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The stubbs lab ceased research in december of 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Experimenting in yeast allows the dudley lab to make discoveries that go beyond the lab with the power to change how scientists around the globe approach genetic research. From performing largescale experiments to discovering new antifungal treatments, the dudley lab is a world leader in using yeast to answer fundamental questions about biology. We are passionate about applying and developing now technologies and about translating discoveries from our lab into realworld applications. The dudley lab experiments in yeast because yeast cells function in much the same way as human cells. However, with yeast, we can perform experiments much faster, and on a grander scale, than scientists can with human cells.
$1,763,218 spent29% of program spendingThe hagopian lab researches ways to predict and prevent the development of type 1 diabetes, a disease affecting over one million american children and adults. Not everyone with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes develops the disease. Why not? Scientists in the hagopian lab believe answers lie in the environment. They are one of 6 labs participating in an international study following 8,000 children with high genetic risk for type 1 diabetes. The hagopian lab also develops population based newborn screening methods to predict who is at risk. The ultimate goal is to prevent the disease entirely.
$1,689,533 spent$886,319 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe carvalho lab studies how, when, and why human genomic variants occur and contribute to the development of disease and disability.
$1,345,160 spent22% of program spendingThe metzger lab is making discoveries about how cancers mutate and evolve by studying contagious cancers in marine bivalves, and they are learning how some clams have evolved the ability to block the cancers that infect them, which may help us understand how our bodies can resist cancer.
$1,241,252 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,039,163.
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 $15M to $29M (+87%).
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 54% · 2018 60% · 2019 84% · 2020 16% · 2021 55% · 2022 64% · 2023 69% · 2024 65% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
John Faris
CEO thru 06/25, board member
Board chair
Gary Kocher
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $101k → $229k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 86% · 2021 53% · 2022 75% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$25.5M
- National Science Foundation$3.0M
- Department of Defense$368k
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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,467,596 to it, the largest being EGTVEDT CHARITABLE TRUST SPECIAL 1 ($650,818). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,467,596 in grants to PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- EGTVEDT CHARITABLE TRUST SPECIAL 1 is the largest funder on record, with $650,818 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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.
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 13 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