· Private foundation
Jefferson Scholarship Fund
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $40,292 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $38,250 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $19,200 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $11,675 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $7,850 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - CASCADES | $7,600 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,825 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,900 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,550 |
| MT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,500 |
| LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,125 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $3,400 |
| WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $3,100 |
| HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +36%
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +29%- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CUCLEARY UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +73%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +35%
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 95 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.
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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: West Scholarship Fnd · Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation · Leo Adler Trust · The Renaissance Foundation · Riggs Student Scholarship Fund · Walter E & Helen W Bruckert · Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · Dale Krueger Scholarship · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jefferson Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jefferson Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Warner Pacific University: 14% of income from government
- Linfield University: 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
- Pacific University: 2% of income from government
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- Willamette University: 1% of income from government
- University of Portland: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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