How much does West Scholarship Fnd give?

West Scholarship Fnd reported 43 grants totaling $181,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does West Scholarship Fnd fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (88%), Recreation & Sports (0%), Human Services (0%).

Who are West Scholarship Fnd's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: George Fox University ($16k), Corban University ($15k), University of Portland ($14k).

Does West Scholarship Fnd fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does West Scholarship Fnd accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as West Scholarship Fnd?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley, Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation, Leo Adler Trust.

Where is West Scholarship Fnd based?

West Scholarship Fnd is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

West Scholarship Fnd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 43
Grants FY2025: 38
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,200
Largest grant, FY2025: $35,626
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 38; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 16
Total assets, FY2025: $3.4M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations West Scholarship Fnd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	42	$179k	26%
FY2024	38	$137k	50%
FY2021	30	$147k	27%
FY2020	26	$132k	46%
FY2018	22	$197k	18%
FY2017	24	$151k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$34Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
George Fox University	$16,000	6	0%
Corban University	$14,850	5	0%
University of Portland	$14,300	4	0%
Pacific University	$13,000	6	0%
Linfield University	$12,200	4	0%
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$7,300	2	0%
Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University	$6,300	3	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$6,200	2	n/a
Linn-Benton Community College	$6,102	4	n/a
West Texas A&M University	$5,500	3	n/a

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All grantees of West Scholarship Fnd by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
George Fox University	$16,000	6	0%
Corban University	$14,850	5	0%
University of Portland	$14,300	4	0%
Pacific University	$13,000	6	0%
Linfield University	$12,200	4	0%
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$7,300	2	0%
Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University	$6,300	3	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$6,200	2	n/a
Linn-Benton Community College	$6,102	4	n/a
West Texas A&M University	$5,500	3	n/a
Lane Community College	$5,435	2	n/a
Denison University	$4,800	2	0%
Baylor University	$4,500	2	0%
Grand Canyon University	$4,200	3	0%
Brigham Young University Alumni LLC	$3,900	1	n/a
Washington University	$3,500	2	0%
Brigham Young University	$3,200	2	n/a
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc	$3,200	2	0%
Lassen Community College	$3,200	2	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$2,600	1	0%
Willamette University	$2,400	2	0%
Utah Valley University	$2,200	2	n/a
Utah State University	$2,200	1	n/a
Asbury College	$2,200	2	0%
Multnomah University	$2,000	1	0%
Cornell University	$2,000	2	0%
Biola University Inc	$2,000	2	0%
The College of Idaho Inc	$1,300	1	0%
Pepperdine University	$1,200	1	0%
Washington State University	$1,200	1	n/a
Idaho State University	$1,100	1	n/a
Kansas State University	$1,100	1	n/a
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$1,100	1	0%
Brigham Young University-Idaho	$1,100	1	n/a
Utah Tech University	$1,000	1	n/a
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota	$1,000	1	0%
Indiana Institute of Technology Inc	$1,000	1	0%
University of the Southwest	$734	1	0%
Northwest Nazarene University Inc	$734	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($776k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget West Scholarship Fnd supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford OusleyTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About West Scholarship Fnd

How much does West Scholarship Fnd give?: West Scholarship Fnd reported 43 grants totaling $181,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does West Scholarship Fnd fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (88%), Recreation & Sports (0%), Human Services (0%).
Who are West Scholarship Fnd's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: George Fox University ($16k), Corban University ($15k), University of Portland ($14k).
Does West Scholarship Fnd fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does West Scholarship Fnd accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as West Scholarship Fnd?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley, Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation, Leo Adler Trust.
Where is West Scholarship Fnd based?: West Scholarship Fnd is based in MN.