· Private foundation
Walter E & Helen W Bruckert
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 $10k18 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,250 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $8,500 |
| COLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,500 |
| BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| LINFIELD UNIVERSITY | $5,750 |
| COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LINN BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,125 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $2,375 |
| PRIME LINE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,750 |
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 (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +42%- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $22k · revenue +31%
- LULinfield University4× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- GCGrand Canyon Universityone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +19%
- OSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CASCADESone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SMSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +68%
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.
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How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 78 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.
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: West Scholarship Fnd · Jefferson Scholarship Fund · Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jf · Leo Adler Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter E & Helen W Bruckert funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter E & Helen W Bruckert. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pacific University: 5% of income from government
- Linfield University: 4% of income from government
- George Fox University: 3% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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