· Private foundation
West Scholarship Fnd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,626 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $31,610 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $15,669 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $6,867 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $5,935 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $5,300 |
| CORBAN UNIVERSITY | $4,700 |
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $3,900 |
| BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY | $3,900 |
| SW OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,868 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $2,800 |
| PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $2,600 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND4× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +7%
- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- KCKLAMETH COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- OOHSUone grant, 2018 · $4k
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +45%
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.
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…
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…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
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.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Portland and the most unlike its peers is Brigham Young University Alumni Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 77 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 80 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.
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 GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Brigham Young University Alumni LLC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON 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: Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation · Leo Adler Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma · Wayne C Stewart Foundation Uma · Jefferson Scholarship Fund · Folds of Honor Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Joann Hamilton Memorial Fund · Walter E & Helen W Bruckert · Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jf
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 West Scholarship Fnd 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Portland — 2% 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.