Health Share of Oregon
Portland, OR · EIN 45-5093195. Reported 41 grants totalling $10.9M to 39 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Health Share of Oregon, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $165,000. Half of what it reported fell between $86,400 and $243,685; the smallest was $41,500 and the largest $1,344,306. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clackamas County Health Centers | Oregon City, OR | $1,344,306 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Home Forward | Portland, OR | $1,054,079 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington County Department of Housing Services | Hillsboro, OR | $1,010,165 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Multnomah County Health Department | Portland, OR | $935,702 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 211 Info | Portland, OR | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Access Now | Portland, OR | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Family Services | Portland, OR | $524,033 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clackamas Womens Services | Oregon City, OR | $323,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Native American Rehabilitation Assoc of the Northwest Inc | Portland, OR | $252,041 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Action Organization | Hillsboro, OR | $250,527 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bienestar Inc | Hillsboro, OR | $245,450 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latino Network | Portland, OR | $243,685 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cascade AIDS Project | Portland, OR | $214,208 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sequoia Mental Health Services Inc | Aloha, OR | $211,506 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meals on Wheels People Inc | Portland, OR | $210,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of the Columbia- Willamette | Portland, OR | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization | Portland, OR | $190,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Path Home | Portland, OR | $180,018 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central City Concern Inc | Portland, OR | $170,499 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon | Portland, OR | $168,062 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Quest | Portland, OR | $165,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adelante Mujeres | Forest Grove, OR | $164,636 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Narrative | Tigard, OR | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Familias En Accion | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feed Em Freedom | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feed the Mass | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood House Inc | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon & Sw Washington African Community Development Center | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Human Development Corporation | Gresham, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Health & Service Center | Portland, OR | $86,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Development Corporation of Oregon | Gresham, OR | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| NAMI Multnomah | Portland, OR | $63,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridge Pomoja | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro Cultural De Condado De Washington | Cornelius, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Zenger Farm | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater New Hope Family Services LLC | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Chinese Coalition | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Lodge Transition Services | Oregon City, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Clackamas County Health Centers
COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING FUNDS FOR HEALTH RELATED SOCIAL NEEDS - NAMI Multnomah
SYSTEM OF CARE AGILE FUNDING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $165,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Health Share of Oregon's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 39 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2121 Sw Broadway 200, Portland, OR, 97201.
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