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Pacific Northwest Waterways Association

Pacific Northwest Waterways Association (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GRAIN AND FEED FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$1.1M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Pacific Northwest Waterways Association does

Mission

Education of members and the public with the overall objective of improving the economy of the Pacific Northwest through utilization of waterways.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education services were provided to members with the overall objective of improving the economy of the Pacific Northwest through utilization of waterways.

    $1,352,419 spent
    78% of program spending
  2. The purpose of this program is to represent public and private sector navigation interests in addressing Columbia Basin salmon recovery issues. The program successfully maintained the federal navigation channels for public use.

    $386,788 spent
    22% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,739,207.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($932k) Expenses 100 ($888k) Net assets 100 ($779k)2018 Revenue 87 ($815k) Expenses 88 ($784k) Net assets 104 ($809k)2019 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 105 ($936k) Net assets 120 ($935k)2020 Revenue 135 ($1.3M) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 133 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 126 ($1.2M) Expenses 138 ($1.2M) Net assets 127 ($989k)2022 Revenue 150 ($1.4M) Expenses 126 ($1.1M) Net assets 164 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 154 ($1.4M) Expenses 184 ($1.6M) Net assets 139 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 187 ($1.7M) Expenses 196 ($1.7M) Net assets 138 ($1.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (187)Expenses (196)Net assets (138)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $989k to $1.3M (+29%).

$783k
$809k
$935k
$1.0M
$989k
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.1M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$31k
’18
$126k
’19
$99k
’20
−$49k
’21
$288k
’22
−$192k
’23
$2k
’24
7.6
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.

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Listed1112121313141414
Joined·+2+1+2+1+2+3+3
No longer listed·1111133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Pacific Northwest Waterways Association’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

Pacific Northwest Waterways Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.

VA

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

Government funding Pacific Northwest Waterways Association receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.

State$16k
20
21
22
23
25
Top programs
  • DUES/MEMBERSHIPS$15k
  • TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$423

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 Waterways Association

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Center for Economic Devl Education · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pacific Northwest Waterways Association: 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 Waterways Association?
Pacific Northwest Waterways Association (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GRAIN AND FEED FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pacific Northwest Waterways Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pacific Northwest Waterways Association?
NATIONAL GRAIN AND FEED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pacific Northwest Waterways Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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