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INVESTIGATEWEST

EIN 27-0170663 SEATTLE, WA

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Revenue 2025
$1,571,698
Expenses 2025
$1,052,345

Program services were 78.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1000
Street
401 MERCER ST STE 218

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

As a nonprofit collaborative newsroom InvestigateWests mission is to produce high-impact investigative journalism that holds power accountable exposes injustice and empowers underserved communities across the Pacific Northwest to create a more informed just and equitable society.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The purpose of the organization is to use the tools of investigative journalism to enhance democracy and community in the region pointing out and correcting injustice and abuse of power and promoting citizen engagement. The organization is also committed to training the next generation of journalists through internship programs.

  • The organization conducts regional reporting initiatives concentrating on environmental health and social issues in the Pacific Northwest. Its major projects are available on its website and distributed through various news outlets. These projects encompass print broadcast radio and multimedia reporting.

    Expenses $824,118 · Revenue $119

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Terri Hiroshima

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beverly Wyse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina McCorkindale

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diana Huynh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joshua Trujillo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Berit Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brant Houston

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Joseph Brown

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Celia Wu

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeremy Gilbert

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacob Fries

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $124,637
    From this org
    $124,637
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,571,698
    Expenses
    $1,052,345
    Contributions
    $1,511,998
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $801,758
    Expenses
    $830,729
    Contributions
    $783,260
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $833,501
    Expenses
    $447,294
    Contributions
    $825,134
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $484,296
    Expenses
    $305,166
    Contributions
    $468,682
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $393,030
    Expenses
    $487,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,320

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $572,049
    Expenses
    $398,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,999

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.