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OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 243 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,843,833 to it, the largest being SILVER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($27,290,000). 133 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$194M
Funders on record
243
Grants received
$207M
Net assets
$1.6B
133/243 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Oregon Health & Science University Foundation does

Mission

Oregon health & science university is a nonprofit organization established in 1970 to secure private philanthropic support to advance ohsu's vital missions, and to invest and manage gifts responsibly to honor donors' wishes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Funding raised by the foundation is being used by ohsu to support research, education, and patient care in the areas of cancer, vision, hearing, neurology, nursing, dentistry, behavioral health, health disparities and equity, rural health, public heath, and many others.see schedule o for more information.

    $165,340,019 spentof which $164,893,835 as grants$3,103,944 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Grants and transfers to support programs of other charitable, medical, and educational organizations.

    $106,628 spentof which $106,628 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,446,647.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($102M) Expenses 100 ($130M) Net assets 100 ($1.3B)2018 Revenue 78 ($79M) Expenses 101 ($131M) Net assets 98 ($1.3B)2019 Revenue 95 ($96M) Expenses 132 ($173M) Net assets 96 ($1.3B)2020 Revenue 107 ($109M) Expenses 109 ($142M) Net assets 95 ($1.3B)2021 Revenue 104 ($106M) Expenses 89 ($116M) Net assets 121 ($1.6B)2022 Revenue 139 ($141M) Expenses 112 ($146M) Net assets 118 ($1.6B)2023 Revenue 95 ($97M) Expenses 123 ($160M) Net assets 116 ($1.5B)2024 Revenue 138 ($141M) Expenses 144 ($188M) Net assets 117 ($1.5B)2025 Revenue 191 ($194M) Expenses 164 ($213M) Net assets 119 ($1.6B)
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Revenue (191)Expenses (164)Net assets (119)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4B to $1.7B (+19%).

$1.5B
$1.5B
$1.5B
$1.4B
$1.7B
$1.6B
$1.6B
$1.6B
$1.7B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

50% of OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 731 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$28M
’17
−$52M
’18
−$76M
’19
−$33M
’20
−$10M
’21
−$4.2M
’22
−$63M
’23
−$47M
’24
−$19M
’25
2.0
months of
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.

Board chair

Kelly Schrader

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed555453485151484846
Joined·+14+13+8+10+12+8+6+10
No longer listed·15141371211612
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 51 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $9.8M → $31M.

57 of 243 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 243 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

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

13%
largest funder
31%
top three
~19
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 24% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 13% · 2022 47% · 2023 16% — 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

46% of OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 31 states in all.

AK
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.

State$1.2M
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Top programs
  • MEDICAL SUPPLIES$968k
  • OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$174k
  • PAYMENTS TO OHSU (COMP UNIT)$46k
  • OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$15k
  • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$10k
  • OTHER SERVICES$5k

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 OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

33
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 16 states

NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
UT
KY
MD
SC
HI
FL

Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • Ohsuf Properties I LLC · disregarded
  • Oregon Health and Science University · exempt
  • Oregon Rural Health Initiative · exempt
  • Oregon Foundation Endowment Fund LP · partnership
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (27) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 243 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,843,833 to it, the largest being SILVER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($27,290,000). 133 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 243 organizations giving $206,843,833 in grants to OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 133 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
SILVER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 243 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing