· Private foundation
Millar Scholarship Fund
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Millar Scholarship Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $14k
- $250k+1 grant · $372k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $371,877 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $1,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE U NIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $1,000 |
| AVEDA INSTITUTE PORTLAND | $500 |
| MOUNT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $500 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2023 · $14k
- OSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $12k
- MHMOUNT HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE5× · 2018–2023 · $10k
Funded once
- WOWESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $4k
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +32%- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -100%
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.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
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.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
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 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…
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…
We, the people of northwest university, carry the call of god by continually building a learning community dedicated to spiritual vitality, academic excellence, and empowered engagement with human need.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Pacific union college is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Corban university's goal is to equip men and women who will bring character to their communities and competence to their careers, all to the glory of christ.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Millar Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Millar Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Warner Pacific University: 14% of income from government
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 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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