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About Us

Since 1910 St. Ignatius School has been graduating students who receive an excellent spiritual, religions and academic education so that they go on to become better people, Catholics and citizens. In December of 1983 a visionary and anonymous donor dedicated to Catholic education made an extraordinary gift of $15,000 to a number of Portland area Catholic schools (including St. Ignatius) with a legal stipulation that the original gift never be spent. St. Ignatius parishioners quickly leapt at this opportunity, organized a board of directors, and incorporated the St. Ignatius School Foundation in 1984 using the gift as seed money. The dream of this original board (based the belief that a Catholic school education was invaluable to children, the community and to the future of the Church) had three main goals:

to grow the fund so that it would someday cover most, if not all, of the budget of the school
that families will pay little or no tuition
make the tuition affordable so that every family that wanted to send their children to the school could do so

The basic principle of The St. Ignatius School Foundation Endowment Fund is that the donations never be spent—only a portion of the earnings are distributed. Subsequently, all donations are held and invested in perpetuity by Foundation for the purpose of generating an income stream for the school. Thanks to the support of hundreds of alumni, parents, parishioners and other generous friends of the school, the Foundation has continued to grow to the size of $2,400,000 in 2018. Over the last thirty-four years, the Foundation has been able to give $900,000 to the school. With the ongoing support by donors and careful management of a dedicated board, and the fund will continue to grow and distributions will continue in perpetuity.

All donations, large and small, are deeply appreciated.

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