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Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities

The mission of the alliance is to represent and serve oregon's regionally accredited, nonprofit, independent colleges and universities through public advocacy, institutional cooperation, and strategic collaboration with the public sector, including business, philanthropic organizations, and government. The alliance strengthens oregon's…

$588k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$67,215
Largest grant, FY2025
$116,215
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$563k0%
FY202410$503k0%
FY202310$536k0%
FY202210$531k0%
FY202110$779k0%
FY202011$754kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Warner Pacific University$981,68661%
Linfield University$586,76660%
Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University$400,97560%
University of Portland$395,60960%
Corban University$314,44060%
Lewis & Clark College$286,24460%
Willamette University$246,91061%
George Fox University$189,28260%
Pacific University$154,47560%
Multnomah University$107,88750%
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All grantees of Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Warner Pacific University$981,68661%
Linfield University$586,76660%
Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University$400,97560%
University of Portland$395,60960%
Corban University$314,44060%
Lewis & Clark College$286,24460%
Willamette University$246,91061%
George Fox University$189,28260%
Pacific University$154,47560%
Multnomah University$107,88750%
Concordia University$65010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWarner Pacific University: $981,686 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLinfield University: $586,766 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University: $400,975 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Portland: $395,609 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCorban University: $314,440 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLewis & Clark College: $286,244 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWillamette University: $246,910 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGeorge Fox University: $189,282 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific University: $154,475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMultnomah University: $107,887 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetConcordia University: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Dale Krueger Scholars…Leo Adler TrustThe Renaissance Found…M J Murdock Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Dale Krueger ScholarshipWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dale Krueger Scholarship · Leo Adler Trust · The Renaissance Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities

How much does Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities give?
Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities reported 10 grants totaling $588,286 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Warner Pacific University ($982k), Linfield University ($587k), Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University ($401k).
Does Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dale Krueger Scholarship, Leo Adler Trust, The Renaissance Foundation.
Where is Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities based?
Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities is based in OR.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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