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Vera C Hendry Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Vera C Hendry Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Sonoma County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Vera C Hendry Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Congregation Shir Shalom | $11,000 |
| College Match co Community Partners | $5,000 |
| Friends in Sonoma Helping | $5,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance | $5,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Community Health Cent | $5,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Education Foundation | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Jewish Community Free Clinic | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SVSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +26%
- VHVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center4× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +118%
- SVSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance4× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation of Sonoma Counone grant, 2020 · $25k
- WGWomen Giving As One Impact 100 Sonoone grant, 2017 · $11k
- CPCA Pacific Medical Center Foundatioone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
To provide accessible, quality health care to those who need it, especially the underserved.
Sonoma County Conservation Action's mission is to better our quality of life in Sonoma County for all generations, through educating and directly engaging the public on local environmental issues and policies using grassroots organizing.
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is devoted to building community around art and presents four to five exhibitions per year and offers educational programs and events, actively engaging people of all ages.
Connecting volunteers for a vibrant community.
Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.
NAMI Sonoma County's mission is to build better lives for individuals and families affected by mental illness throughout Sonoma County by providing education, support, and advocacy.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Provides meals daily to home bound seniors through volunteers who prepare and deliver the meals.
Strengthens its community through assisting donors, making grants, and providing leadership.
Sonoma county vintners foundation conducts and supports education programs related to the wine industry.
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Jewish Community Free Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance ↗
- Who funds Becoming Independent ↗
- Who funds Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Jewish Community Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Sanderson Family Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · The John & Sandra Leland Foundation · Kakatu Foundation Inc · The Vadasz Family Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vera C Hendry Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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