· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Congregation Shir Shalom | $11,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Sonoma Valley Education Foundation | $2,500 |
| Jewish Community Free Clinic | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SVSONOMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +26%
- VHVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center4× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +76%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Jewish Community Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Ecology Center ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vera C Hendry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vera C Hendry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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