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NORTHWEST HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES

EIN 91-1961032 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2025
$625,033
Expenses 2025
$1,085,004

Program services were 63.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E017
Classification
1000
Street
1301 5TH AVE STE 1200

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).

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.

  • Daphne Smith

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $144,879
    From this org
    $118,216
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,663
    Hours/week
    35

  • Emily Brice

    Co-Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $128,403
    From this org
    $122,485
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,918
    Hours/week
    35

  • Vanessa Saavedra

    Senior Attorney

    Total calculated
    $126,295
    From this org
    $105,449
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,846
    Hours/week
    35

  • Janet Varon

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $7,395
    From this org
    $6,933
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $462
    Hours/week
    31.5

  • Lori Buchsbaum

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Omid Bagheri Garakani

    Secretary and Vice President, then President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura MacPherson

    Secretary and Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Audrey Sheffield

    Treasurer to Fall 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ellen Miller

    Treasurer from Fall 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cezanne Garcia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Myers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tony Gonzalez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charina Carothers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — 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
    $625,033
    Expenses
    $1,085,004
    Contributions
    $581,213
    Grants paid
    $9,765
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,416,898
    Expenses
    $1,029,628
    Contributions
    $2,380,135
    Grants paid
    $70,515
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $761,365
    Expenses
    $795,943
    Contributions
    $727,258
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,350,843
    Expenses
    $651,140
    Contributions
    $1,335,910
    Grants paid
    $10,000

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.

Grants made

  • Asian Counseling and Referral Service

    $65,000

    2024 NoHLA has a subgrant with ACRS to partner in shared advocacy to expand access to affordable health coverage and care for immigrants in Washington. NoHLA administers this grant under a contract with Community Catalyst, which includes specific reporting requirements for NoHLA and its subcontractor that were fulfilled in 2024.

  • Yakima Valley Community Foundation

    $10,000

    2022 healthcare outreach to immigrant community

  • Yakima Valley Community Foundation LatinX Outreach

    $9,000

    2025 Pass-through subgrant from Inatai Foundation to LatinX Outreach, a community-based organization, via their fiscal sponsor, Yakima Valley Community Foundation. Inatai Foundation sponsored an immigrant health roundtable and community training jointly organized by LatinX Outreach and NoHLA on December 17, 2025. The grant funds went toward event costs, such as food for participants.

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.