Northwest Vipassana Association

Analysis

Northwest Vipassana Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Onalaska, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Northwest Vipassana Association reported income of $870k and spending of $625k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $870k (-18%), an average of -4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 118%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Northwest Vipassana Association sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include In His Steps Ministries Inc ($870k), Malheur County Junior Livestock Committee ($870k) and Barnabas Network ($870k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 29% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $86k. At year end it held assets of $7.2m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $5.5m. It reported 6 employees.