· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SNOWCAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES | $14,000 |
| PORTLAND ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVIC | $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 |
| WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE | $3,500 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND | $3,500 |
| SHEPHERD'S DOOR | $3,500 |
| PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION | $3,500 |
| NEHALEM BAY HEALTH CLINIC | $2,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vera L Smith Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vera L Smith Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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