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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $481k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $116,215 |
| LINFIELD UNIVERSITY | $96,215 |
| BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY | $78,125 |
| CORBAN UNIVERSITY | $72,215 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $67,215 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $51,215 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $36,215 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $24,215 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $21,215 |
| REED COLLEGE | $21,215 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WPWARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $982k · revenue +6%
- LULinfield University6× · 2020–2025 · $587k · revenue +3%
- BUBUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $401k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $650 · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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'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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Portland and the most unlike its peers is Concordia University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dale Krueger Scholarship · Leo Adler Trust · The Renaissance Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges & Universities funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Warner Pacific University — 8% of income from government
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University — 5% of income from government
- Pacific 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
- University of Portland — 2% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.