Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

What it reported doing in 2025

Nwaps offers multiple courses and seminars each fall, winter, and spring. These are presented by alliance members and professionals from the wider psychoanalytic community. Education committee-sponsored courses and distinguished speaker committee-sponsored seminars require pre-enrollment and have a specifc fee structure. Each spring for more than 25 years, the northwest psychoanalytic community has come together to experiance the forum, the aooliances annual conference. Mater clinicians, as well as newer professionals present on a wide variety of phychoanalytic topics. Many of our members and presenters have found benefits from the online option and we expect to continue this as a way to access presenters outside the greater pacific northwest area and increase accessibility in general. The alliance also offers formal mentoring groups as a benefit to nwaps members who are in their first 10 years of clinical practice in the field of psychotherapy. Experienced therapists and psychoanalysts in the nwaps community meet virtually with participants in small groups of 4-6 people to focus on areas of personal and processional growth, case consultation, and relevant topical study. In addtion, the alliance is expanding its anti-racism work, strating with a series called speaking about race and turning our attention to examining our program with an anti-racist lens. Nwaps offers multiple courses and seminars each fall, winter, and spring. These are presented by alliance members and professionals from the wider psychoanalytic community. Education committee-sponsored courses and distinguished speaker committee-sponsored seminars require pre-enrollment and have a specifc fee structure. Each spring for more than 25 years, the northwest psychoanalytic community has come together to experiance the forum, the aooliances annual conference. Mater clinicians, as well as newer professionals present on a wide variety of phychoanalytic topics. Many of our members and presenters have found benefits from the online option and we expect to continue this as a way to access presenters outside the greater pacific northwest area and increase accessibility in general. The alliance also offers formal mentoring groups as a benefit to nwaps members who are in their first 10 years of clinical practice in the field of psychotherapy. Experienced therapists and psychoanalysts in the nwaps community meet virtually with participants in small groups of 4-6 people to focus on areas of personal and processional growth, case consultation, and relevant topical study. In addtion, the alliance is expanding its anti-racism work, strating with a series called speaking about race and turning our attention to examining our program with an anti-racist lens.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 32.4%; rating input score 32
• Program expense ratio: 34%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -2.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings