Discover Your Northwest

Analysis

Discover Your Northwest is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Discover Your Northwest reported income of $3.8m and spending of $3.9m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.3m to $3.8m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 162%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Discover Your Northwest sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sno-King Amateur Hockey Association ($3.8m), Greater Altoona Community Service Campus ($3.8m) and KC Select Soccer Club Inc ($3.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 25% and program service revenue 8.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $317k (8.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $411k, net assets of $3.1m. It reported 116 employees.