Oregon · Nonprofit
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,123,440 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,630,999). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- V E & Betty Phillips Scholarship Fundportfolio match
- James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fundportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 64 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $4.0M.
17 of 143 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 143 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 26% 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 22% · 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; 63% 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 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 143 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 123 organizations that share your funders
- V E & Betty Phillips Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hill Ruth a - Uiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eberly Da & Tb Scholarship Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robtjulia Johnston Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R D Cundiff Scholarship Trust Dtd 10121portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 173 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
- Institute of International Education Incshared fundersNY · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 136 organizations that share your funders
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY?
- GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,123,440 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($4,630,999). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 143 organizations giving $18,123,440 in grants to GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY, 90 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.
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 143funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing