People sit at round tables inside a room decorated with Native art and tribal flags.

Justice Reinvestment Equity Program grantees attended a convening at Portland State University’s Native American Student and Community Center

We look back at 2025 with so many emotions, running the gamut from sadness to hope. 

At Northwest Health Foundation, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to lead a healthy life. That freedom depends on free and fair elections, on having a voice and a seat in community and government, and on the safety and security to move around our neighborhoods freely.

The freedom to lead a healthy life is currently jeopardized—by HR1 and state budget cuts, the continued dehumanizing campaign against immigrant families, and the federal administration’s threat to deploy federal agents and National Guard troops in our neighborhoods.

But we find hope in how our communities are responding. In 2025, Protect Oregon set up statewide infrastructure to train Oregonians on resisting authoritarianism. PCUN organized the first of several “Day without an Immigrant” protests, and many of our grantees laid the groundwork for 2026 elections. 

We also found pockets of joy and plenty of purpose:

So, we’ll keep at it.  

A couple dozen people wearing name tags pose in front of two large tapestries depicting sunflowers

Our community dinner in Redmond

People sit and stand inside of a structure carpeted with turf and lined with plants. One person speaks into a handheld microphone.

Civic Health grantees in Florida

Two adults jump on a trampoline

Civic Health grantees in Florida

NWHF staff and board members pose on the front steps of a building with someone dressed as Elsa from Frozen.

The NWHF board at their retreat in Beaverton

2025 Funded Partners

In 2025 we awarded 127 grants to 123 community organizations throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. This list includes grants and contributions approved January 1 to December 31, 2025. 

Northwest Health Foundation — 501(c)(4)

Civic Health

  • APANO Action Fund

  • Building Power for Communities of Color

  • East County Rising Action Fund

  • Imagine Black

  • Latino Network Action Fund

  • NAYA Action Fund

  • Next Up Action Fund

  • Oregon Donor Alliance

  • Oregon Futures Lab

  • PCUN

  • Tribal Democracy Project

  • Washington County Ignite Action Fund

Influence & Action

  • Equal Rights for All Petition

  • North Star Action Center

  • Portland For All

President’s Fund

  • Basic Rights Oregon

  • Black United Fund of Oregon

  • Cascade AIDS Project

  • Chinook Indian Nation

  • Community Foundation for Southwest Washington

  • Council for the Homeless

  • Gordly Burch Center for Black Leadership and Civic Engagement

  • Hedgebrook

  • Housing Oregon

  • Next Up Action Fund

  • North by Northeast Community Health Center

  • Oregon Black Pioneers

  • Oregon Center for Public Policy

  • Oregon for All

  • Oregon Values & Beliefs Center

  • Peace House

  • Pride Foundation

  • Rural Organizing Project

  • Seeding Justice

  • United Negro College Fund

  • Women's Foundation of Oregon

Sponsorships

  • Albina Vision Trust

  • American Civic Liberties Union of Oregon

  • American Leadership Forum of Oregon

  • APANO Action Fund

  • Asian and Pacific Islanders Collective

  • Basic Rights Oregon

  • Bienestar

  • Black & Beyond the Binary Collective

  • Black Cultural Initiative

  • Black Futures Initiative for Perinatal Health

  • Black United Fund of Oregon

  • Building Power for Communities of Color

  • Capaces Leadership Institute

  • Clackamas Women's Services

  • Comunidad y Herencia Cultural

  • Consejo Hispano

  • East County Rising Community Projects

  • El Centro NW

  • Eugene Springfield NAACP

  • Euvalcree

  • Familias en Acción

  • Imagine Black Futures

  • Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization

  • Juneteenth OR

  • Ka ʻAha Lāhui O ʻOlekona Hawaiian Civic Club of Oregon and SW Washington

  • Latino Community Association

  • Latino Network

  • Love and Justice Alliance

  • Micronesian Islander Community

  • Muslim Educational Trust

  • Native American Youth and Family Center

  • Nativewomanshare

  • Necanicum Watershed Council

  • Next Up Action Fund

  • North by Northeast Community Health Center

  • Oregon Futures Lab

  • Oregon Worker Relief Fund

  • Pacific County Immigrant Support

  • Ridgefield Multicultural Initiative

  • Seeding Justice

  • The UPRISE Collective

  • Unete

  • Urban League of Portland

  • Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation

  • Voz Workers Rights Education Project

  • Western States Center

Northwest Health Foundation Fund II — 501(c)(3)

Advancing Disability Justice

  • Affect

  • Ashby Family LEAD & Engagement Services

  • Black & Beyond the Binary Collective

  • Pacific County Voices Uniting

  • The UPRISE Collective

Civic Health

  • The Ebony Collective CDC

  • Unite Oregon

  • Western States Center

Influence & Action

  • APANO Communities United Fund

  • Cascade AIDS Project

  • Latino Network

  • Southwest Washington Equity Coalition

Justice Reinvestment Equity

  • Beyond These Walls

  • Black Alliance & Social Empowerment (BASE)

  • Central City Concern (Flip the Script Program)

  • Clackamas Women's Services

  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program

  • HOLLA Mentors

  • Latino Network

  • LIFE Art

  • Love Is Stronger GV

  • Mano a Mano

  • Oregon Washington Health Network

  • Papalaxsimisha

  • Tayas Yawks

  • The Harbor

  • The Stronghold: A Culturally Responsive Peer Support Program

  • UTOPIA PDX

  • WomenFirst Transition & Referral Center

Other Gifts

  • Street Roots

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