· Private foundation
Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $278k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $278,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $45,600 |
| MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $22,800 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $11,400 |
| LINFIELD UNIVERSITY | $11,400 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $11,400 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $11,400 |
| DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,400 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,400 |
| COLLEGE OF IDAHO | $11,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $11,400 |
| FRANK PHILLIPS COLLEGE | $11,400 |
| CARROLL COLLEGE | $11,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +27%
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +34%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- USUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $18k
- TVTREASURE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $12k
- LCLinn-Benton Community Collegeone grant, 2020 · $12k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE BIBLE COLLEGE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Leo Adler Trust · West Scholarship Fnd · Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma · Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd · Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund · Wayne C Stewart Foundation Uma · Jefferson Scholarship Fund · The Renaissance Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University: 5% of income from government
- Willamette University: 4% of income from government
- Linfield University: 4% of income from government
- Corban University: 4% of income from government
- George Fox University: 3% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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