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NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL

EIN 45-3463744 PORTLAND, OR

Revenue 2023
$2,959,861
Expenses 2023
$4,121,592

Program services were 65.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
2130 N KILPATRICK STREET 17359

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 · 2023

Mission

Northwest Outward Bound School (NWBOS) changes lives through challenge and discovery. We offer wilderness expeditions for all ages and bring outward bound values to schools and professional groups through team building and character development activities. Our programs develop

Activities or mission (Part I)

Northwest Outward Bound School's mission is to change lives through challenge and discovery. The

  • Northwest Outward Bound School (NWOBS) offers wilderness courses and community programs based out of Redmond, OR; Portland, OR, and Mazama, WA. Students travel from around the world to participate in our wilderness courses which span the pacific northwest from the San Juan islands, Mount Baker, and the north Cascades to the city of Portland, Deschutes river, and Smith Rock. Our wilderness courses and community programs serve middle school students, high school students, and adults, and we offer specialized courses for groups including LGBTQ+, grieving teens, veterans, outdoor educators, professionals and schools.

    Expenses $2,716,746

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Valerie Halpin

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ernesto Fonseca

    Development Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebecca Bear

    Safety Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott South

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melanie Stagnitti

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Compton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lauren Fraser

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew McClure

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Henry Morse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Mull

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Reardon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Salitore

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ken Turner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Waller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Westing

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kimberly White

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alexander Yu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marc Heisterkamp

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $148,417
    From this org
    $148,417
    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,959,861
    Expenses
    $4,121,592
    Contributions
    $656,394
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,590,566
    Expenses
    $3,802,903
    Contributions
    $1,130,880
    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
    $3,666,331
    Expenses
    $2,985,316
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,032,579
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,486,700
    Expenses
    $1,765,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,009,663
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,027,101
    Expenses
    $3,227,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,241,624
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,055,238
    Expenses
    $3,481,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,162,729
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,015,560
    Expenses
    $3,095,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,471,528
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,824,909
    Expenses
    $2,746,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,406,595
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,980,267
    Expenses
    $2,534,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,231,220
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,268,528
    Expenses
    $2,291,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $764,520
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,142,353
    Expenses
    $2,070,772
    Assets (EOY)
    $694,368

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

Related partnerships on its 2023 return

  • Outward Bound Services Group II

    Related · National Chartering Affiliate · NC · 14.78% owned · share of income -$10,101 · share of assets $169,695

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.