· Private foundation
Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $49,610 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,750 |
| CHICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| OHSU | $6,500 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| YMCA | $4,000 |
| KLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS | $3,000 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $2,875 |
| OIT | $2,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $1,750 |
| FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| TMS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +36%
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +32%- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- PMPAUL MITCHELL SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $3k
- UTUNIVERSAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $2k
- OCOREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
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…
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
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.
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.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
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…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 101 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · West Scholarship Fnd · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma · Jefferson Scholarship Fund · Leo Adler Trust · Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fd · Wayne C Stewart Foundation Uma · The Renaissance Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University: 5% of income from government
- Smart Reading: 4% 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
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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