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North Coast Scholarship Foundation at a glance

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North Coast Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$449k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$520kArts & Culture$9k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$190,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEASIDE SCHOLARSHIPS$250,466
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$190,000
COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM$8,554
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $3k → 9%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $3k → 14%AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $190k → 11%GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $3k → 12%COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $9k → 13%WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $2k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $1k → 16%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $3k → 9%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%LINFIELD COLLEGE: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $3k → 12%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $2k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $1k → 9%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $3k → 14%LINFIELD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $1k → 12%CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $2k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $1k → 9%LINFIELD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $1k → 12%SEASIDE SCHOLARSHIPS: $250k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $1k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 18%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%LINFIELD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $667 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $1k → 15%LINFIELD COLLEGE: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
NE
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67k · 11 repeat orgs$462k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$67k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

45%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LU
    Linfield University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +3%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +15%
  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -15%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +53%
  • WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Augustana College

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…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
Ashland University

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…

Education
6
Point Park University

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…

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7
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
8
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
Pacific University

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.

Education
11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willamette University; the most unlike its peers is Seaside Scholarships Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Seaside Scholarships Incorporated: $250,466 · EducationSeaside Scholarships IncorporatedSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $190,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION+11 more: $41,000 · Education+11 moreOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $7,833 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $7,000 · OtherPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,000 · OtherCLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,000 · Other+4 more: $3,167 · OtherCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $8,554 · Arts & Culture
Education$481,466Other$39,000Arts & Culture$8,554

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLinfield University: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $8,554 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Coast Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Coast Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Columbia River Maritime Museum: 3% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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