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Oregon Health & Science University Foundation

Oregon health & science university is a nonprofit organization established in 1970 to secure private philanthropic support to advance ohsu's vital missions, and to invest and manage gifts responsibly to honor donors' wishes.

$165M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$86M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$826MEducation$338MHuman Services$462kPhilanthropy$44kScience & Tech$28kFood & Nutrition$25k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
  • $250k+8 grants · $164M
$5,300,109
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$85,681,252
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$44,513,775
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$13,288,984
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$6,543,849
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$5,300,109
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$4,534,475
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$4,096,429
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$344,314
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$70,923
PROVIDENCE - ST VINCENTS$35,705
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $462k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Tides Center: $25k → 10%AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $437k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2B · 4 repeat orgs$683k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +258% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$1.2B
$683k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+258%
+69%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2B
  • SL
    SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +38%
  • PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $437k · revenue +75%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2019 · $151k
  • MJ
    M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Pischel Hildegarde T Endowment Fund
Food & Nutrition
2
Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation

Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.

Education
3
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
5
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
The Mcknight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
8
The Sir Philip Sidney Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Litchfield Scholarship Association Inc
Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Minnesota Private College Fund

The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence St Vincent Medical Foundation and the most unlike its peers is M J Murdock Charitable Trust. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $1,158,189,273 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY+3 more — $204,116 · OtherSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER — $4,980,539 · HealthPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $289,152 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC — $437,219 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $24,653 · Human ServicesM J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST — $30,572 · PhilanthropyTHE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION — $13,875 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM — $25,075 · Environment
Other$1,158,393,389Health$5,269,691Human Services$461,872Philanthropy$44,447Environment$25,075

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER — $4,980,539 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC — $437,219 over 1y, 24% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $289,152 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM — $25,075 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $24,653 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION — $13,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · 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 Health & Science University Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Friends of Zenger Farm28% of income from government
  • Sky Lakes Medical Center2% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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