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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 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +258% since the first grant, against +69% for those 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
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

  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2B
  • SL
    SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +52%
  • 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%
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
Pischel Hildegarde T Endowment Fund
Food & Nutrition
2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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.

Education
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Oregon Chapter

The foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete doctoral degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
The Litchfield Scholarship Association Inc
Education
12
The Sir Philip Sidney Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sky Lakes Medical Center; 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 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 11 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

The Oregon Community …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Oregon Health & Science University Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
  • Sky Lakes Medical Center: 2% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% 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, 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 11 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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