Northwest Scientific Association

Analysis

Northwest Scientific Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Corvallis, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1935, 91 years ago. 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 Scientific Association reported income of $74k and spending of $53k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $58k to $74k (+29%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Northwest Scientific Association sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Legatus ($74k), Lutheran Braille Evangelism Association ($74k) and PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($74k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.2% and program service revenue 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $420k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $420k.