Oregon · Nonprofit
Oregon State University Foundation
Oregon State University Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 314 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,845,963 to it, the largest being WAYNE AND GLADYS VALLEY FOUNDATION ($51,441,667). 175 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $176M
- Funders on record
- 314
- Grants received
- $142M
- Net assets
- $1.2B
What Oregon State University Foundation does
Mission
MISSION: The OSU Foundation partners with Oregon State University to engage our community, inspire investment, and steward resources to enhance the university's excellence and impact. VISION: To create a better world by inspiring support of - and for - Oregon State University
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CAPITAL PROGRAMS: The OSU foundation distributed these amounts, in accordance with donor intent, to the University in FY25 to support the construction or renovation of campus facilities. Major projects in FY25 included: The Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex, Valley Football Center enhancements, Reser Stadium - west side renovation, Withycombe Hall, Baseball Hitting Facility, Construction Safety Laboratory, Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts, and Austin Hall. The Foundation works with donors to complement the State of Oregon's investment in university facilities - often matching state dollars one to one. Currently under construction, the 143,000-square-foot Huang Complex will house one of the most powerful supercomputers in the country. Construction of the $213 million complex is funded by $100 million in philanthropic commitments to the OSU Foundation, $72 million in state bonds and the remainder from university funds.
$29,610,230 spent41% of program spendingSCHOLARSHIPS & OTHER STUDENT SUPPORT: The OSU foundation distributed these amounts, in accordance with donor intent, to the University in FY25 to support students through scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. Over time, donors have created over 2.418 unique scholarship, fellowship, and student support funds of various types and amounts at the OSU Foundation, of which 2,005 are endowed. These funds help ensure that an OSU education is accessible to qualified students, regardless of economic circumstances, and allow the University to recruit and retain outstanding students from Oregon and beyond. During the 2024/2025 academic year, 4,986 OSU students received donor-funded scholarships. A current Foundation priority is advancing the university's strategic goal of becoming a place where every student graduates. As part of its multi-year comprehensive fundraising campaign, the Foundation has set a $500 million goal for scholarships and student support. Campaign efforts emphasize donor investment in OSU's Finish in Four Initiative, which helps students complete their degrees on time while receiving a high-quality education that prepares them for careers, community engagement and…
$16,509,624 spent23% of program spendingINSTRUCTION & RESEARCH: The OSU Foundation distributed these amounts, in accordance with donor intent, to the University in FY25 to support teaching and research. During the year, donor funds helped support OSU's internationally recognized programs in marine sciences, forestry and agricultural sciences, among others. With 212 endowed faculty positions at the University, donors to the OSU Foundation provide critically needed private funds to help recruit and retain world-class talent. Endowed positions range from the Oregon Hazelnut Industry Professor and the Otteman Brant Faculty Fellow in Small Animal Medicine to the Grover Family Chair in Sustainable Urban Landscapes and the Holcomb Professor in Structural Engineering.
$8,926,019 spent12% of program spendingSee Schedule O, Statement 1 EXPENSES: 50400 - Recognition and Awards - $258,398 50550 - Land Improvements - $76,989 50700 - Equipment - $745,866 50800 - Computer Hardware - $58,829 50850 - Computer Software - $253,973 51100 - Telephone/VOIP - $889 51155 - Cell Phone Charges - $5,112 51175 - Internet\Network Expenses - $1,382 51200 - Postage & Mailing\Shipping Services - $163.553 51700 - Supplies - $664,653 51750 - Books, Periodicals & Subscriptions - $234,521 51775 - Database Services - $4,717 51800 - Minor Equipment - $511,531 52400 - Interest - $178,055 52550 - Maintenance & Repair - Equipment - $43,952 52600 - Maintenance & Repair - Building - $515,813 52650 - Maintenance & Repair - Grounds - $20,049 52700 - Maintenance & Repair - Janitorial - $14,586 52800 - Maintenance & Licensing - Software - $23,198 52900 - Maintenance & Repair - Miscellaneous - $12,135 53500 - Publishing\Printing - $157,803 54100 - Payroll - $2,156,415 54150 - Payroll - Student - $669,008 54160 - Payroll - Overtime - $3,882 54170 - Payroll - Temporary - $12,900 54800 - Payroll Recruiting - $70 54900 - Payroll - Other - $1,540,628 55050 - Professional - Legal - $138 55300 - Professional - Consulting…
$17,218,019 spent$1,041,096 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $72,263,892.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2B to $2.3B (+91%).
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.
58% of Oregon State University Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 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
Shawn L Scoville
President & CEO
Board chair
Penny Atkins
Trustee - Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 82 funders to 114 funders, grant income rose $5.2M → $15M.
43 of 314 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Conflict and Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Oregon State University Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Oregon State University Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 314 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 State University Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 State University Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 21% · 2020 48% · 2021 18% · 2022 25% · 2023 17% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of Oregon State University Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Oregon State University Foundation draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
Oregon State University Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Oregon State University Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $534k on record — $500k federal, $34k state.
- Agency for International Development$500k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$15k
- DISTRIBUTION TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS$13k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$4k
- ADVERTISE, PUBLICITY, PUBLISH/PRINT SRVS$900
- OTHER SUPPLIES$800
- FACILITIES RENT$50
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 State 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- 4238 Research Way LLC · disregarded
- Oregon 4-H Foundation · exempt
- The Beaver Caucus · exempt
- Oregon State University Alumni Association · exempt
- Trysting Tree Golf Club Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Oregon State University Foundation: 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 Oregon State University Foundation?
- Oregon State University Foundation (Oregon) receives grants from 314 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,845,963 to it, the largest being WAYNE AND GLADYS VALLEY FOUNDATION ($51,441,667). 175 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oregon State University Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 314 organizations giving $141,845,963 in grants to Oregon State University Foundation, 175 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oregon State University Foundation?
- WAYNE AND GLADYS VALLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,441,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oregon State 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.
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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 314 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