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Vera L Smith Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVIC | $14,000 |
| SNOWCAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES | $14,000 |
| OHSU SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY | $13,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $8,500 |
| NORTH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| CARE | $7,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES INC | $5,000 |
| DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITA | $5,000 |
| WALLACE MEDICAL CONCERN | $4,000 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND | $3,500 |
| SHEPHERD'S DOOR | $3,500 |
| PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION | $3,500 |
| WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE | $3,500 |
| NEHALEM BAY HEALTH CLINIC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SCSNOWCAP COMMUNITY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +89%
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +26%- NCNORTH COUNTY FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +265%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
Providing health care services
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Northeast Oregon Network (the Organization) is a non-profit organization established to create a healthier Oregon by reducing barriers for both residents and regional systems that support their health. The Organization fulfills its mission…
Open Door Community Health Centers promotes social justice and human dignity through exceptional patient-centered care that improves the health and well-being of our patients, community, and staff.
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
Mission: creating a healthy community with respect, compassion and acceptance for all. vision: working together to empower individuals to improve their health, well-being and safety. core values: community - the safe, caring, and inclusive…
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 SNOWCAP COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALLACE MEDICAL CONCERN ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Nehalem Bay Health Center & Pharmacy ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 L Smith Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Nehalem Bay Health Center & Pharmacy — 40% of income from government
- The Wallace Medical Concern — 27% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
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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