Oregon · Nonprofit
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,404,219 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,630,999). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175M
- Funders on record
- 149
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $208M
What George Fox University does
Mission
George Fox University, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Quality undergraduate education in the humanities, sciences and professional studies, with more than 60 academic majors, minors, pre-professional programs, and adult degree completion education programs.
$81,864,350 spentof which $53,663,957 as grants$106,296,005 earned by the program59% of program spendingQuality graduate education programs in the areas of behavioral health, business, education & teaching, healthcare, and seminary including 6 healthcare degrees, 7 seminary degrees, and 10 masters and doctoral degrees.
$25,185,263 spentof which $407,269 as grants$31,776,084 earned by the program18% of program spendingAthletic programs for men and women developing leadership and team-building skills, including baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, track, cross country, soccer, golf, swimming, football, lacrosse, tennis, cheer/stunt, and esports (ncaa division 3), and student life expenditures.
$9,938,274 spent7% of program spendingAdmissions, housing, food services.
$20,993,691 spentof which $5,594 as grants$2,220,787 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $137,981,578.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $201M to $237M (+18%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Robin Baker
CEO/president
Board chair
Don Carter
Trustee, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $4.0M.
19 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 31% · 2019 52% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 45% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.0M on record — $16.9M federal, $18.1M state.
- Department of Education$13.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
- National Science Foundation$343k
- Department of the Interior$293k
- Department of Defense$141k
- Department of Agriculture$100k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$16.4M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$1.0M
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$475k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$111k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$85k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS TO SUBRECIPIENTS$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- 808 Hancock LLC · disregarded
- 814 Hancock LLC · disregarded
- Lafayette Gfu #1 LLC · disregarded
- Lafayette Gfu #2 LLC · disregarded
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (11) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY?
- GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,404,219 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,630,999). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $18,404,219 in grants to GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,630,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 149 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing