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- EIN 93-6022772
- (541) 737-4218
- 4238 Sw Research Way Corvallis OR 97333-1068 USA
- www.osufoundation.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education
Mission: The osu foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation chartered to receive, manage, and administer private gifts to support oregon state university. Private support deepens the university's impact and extends its reach across the state and around the world by helping to make an osu education accessible to qualified students. It also allows faculty, staff, and students to push the frontiers of knowledge, contributing to the state's prosperity and addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet and its people.
Programs: Scholarships & other student support: the osu foundation distributed these amounts, in accordance with donor intent, to the university in fy17 to support students through scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. Through the years, donors have created over 1,700 unique scholarship and fellowship funds of various types and amounts at the osu foundation. 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 the best and brightest students from oregon and beyond.
capital programs: the osu foundation distributed these amounts, in accordance with donor intent, to the university, in fy17, to support the construction or renovation of campus facilities. Major projects in fy17 included: renovations to goss stadium and the valley football center, the oregon forest science complex, the marine studies building in newport, and the osu-cascades campus expansion.
instruction and research: the osu foundation distributed these amounts, in accordance with donor intent, to the university, in fy17, to support teaching and research. With 112 endowed faculty positions at the university, donors to the osu foundation provide critically needed private funds to help recruit and retain world-class talent in the classrooms and labs. During the year, foundation funds helped support osu's internationally recognized programs in marine sciences, forestry, and agricultural sciences, among others.