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West Scholarship Fnd at a glance

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West Scholarship Fnd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
$2,200
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY$3,900
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$3,900
SW OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,868
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$2,800
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$2,600
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%EMBRYRIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $2k → 15%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $734 → 11%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO: $5k → 16%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY IDAHO: $1k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN: $2k → 12%CAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%LASSEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 17%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $734 → 19%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 20%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $1k → 11%HAMLINE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 12%SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 13%WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 13%CORBAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $16k → 15%KLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 16%SW OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 17%UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $667 → 17%BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $734 → 12%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 23%ASBURY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%THE COLLEGE OF IDAHO INC: $1k → 11%WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%LINFIELD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $32k → 16%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
CA
UT
MO
KY
AZ
NM
KS
OK
LA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$897k · 48 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
19

Total granted

$897k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+42%

Still filing today

33%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • GF
    GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    4× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +7%
  • PU
    PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • KC
    KLAMETH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • O
    OHSU
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +45%
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
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
2
Western New England University

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…

Education
3
Lehigh University

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…

Education
4
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
5
Marquette University

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.

Education
6
Texas Christian University

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…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
John Brown University

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…

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
10
Augustana University Association

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.

Education
11
John Carroll University

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…

Education
12
Augustana College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Portland; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $215,150 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYOREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $210,198 · OtherOREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYUNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $123,435 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONKLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $31,382 · OtherSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY: $29,065 · Other+48 more: $208,612 · Other+48 moreGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationGEORGE FOX UNIV…CORBAN UNIVERSITY: $14,850 · EducationCORBAN UNIVERSI…UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $14,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF P…PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · EducationPACIFIC UNIVERS…Linfield University: $12,200 · EducationLinfield Univer…CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $7,300 · EducationCORPORATION OF …BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $6,300 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY: $4,800 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · Education+18 more: $37,968 · Education+18 more
Other$817,842Education$131,218

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $14,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $14,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $12,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $7,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $6,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTNOMAH UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Idaho Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $734 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC: $734 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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

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 a…Walter & Mary a Stast…Leo Adler TrustTulsa Community Found…Eminger Stewart Found…Wayne C Stewart Found…Jefferson Scholarship…Folds of Honor Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Joann Hamilton Memori…Walter E & Helen W Br…Wf & Blanche E West E…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization West Scholarship Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Scholarship Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 80 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-PF 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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