Good Shepherd Community Health
Hermiston, OR · EIN 93-1170546. Reported 49 grants totalling $770,889 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Good Shepherd Community Health, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 24% 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 much its list changes. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $14,996; the smallest was $5,556 and the largest $73,044. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Health Care System | Hermiston, OR | $183,885 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Made to Thrive | Hermiston, OR | $116,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Umatilla County Fire District #1 | Hermiston, OR | $53,665 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stepping Stones of Hermiston Inc | Hermiston, OR | $46,380 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eastern Oregon Mission | Hermiston, OR | $35,498 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blue Mountain Community College Foundation | Pendleton, OR | $33,897 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Eastern Oregon University Foundation | La Grande, OR | $33,897 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Domestic Violence Services Inc | Pendleton, OR | $27,774 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Hermiston Community Foundation | Hermiston, OR | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boardman Parks and Rec | Hermiston, OR | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Umatilla County Search and Rescue Foundation Inc | Pendleton, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Hermiston Parks & Recreation | Hermiston, OR | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Fellowship Dinners in Hermiston | Hermiston, OR | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Irrigon Rural Fire Protection District | Hermiston, OR | $11,965 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humane Society of Eastern Oregon Pet Rescue | Hermiston, OR | $11,953 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Stanfield Community Center | Stanfield, OR | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Heppner | Heppner, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Knights of Columbus | Hermiston, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stanfield Public Library | Stanfield, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sweet Potatos Closet | Hermiston, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hermiston JR Bulldogs | Hermiston, OR | $9,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council Inc | La Grande, OR | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Umatilla Police Department | Umatilla, OR | $8,740 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Umatilla-Morrow County Head Start Inc | Hermiston, OR | $8,335 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eastern Oregon First-Responders Association | Hermiston, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hermiston Parks & Recreation | Hermiston, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Umatilla County Sheriff's Office | Pendleton, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Irrigon Jrsr High School | Hermiston, OR | $7,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seventh-Day Adventist Church | Hermiston, OR | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dream Catcher Therapeutics | Pendleton, OR | $6,150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
10 of 30 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Good Shepherd Health Care System
FUEL, VEHICLE MAINTENANCE, MINOR SUPPLIES; TOBACCO CESSATION PROGRAM; COLORECTAL SCREENING KITS; COOKING CLASSES FOR SENIORS; DENTURES FOR SENIOR ADULTS; MENTAL HEALTH OUTREACH FOR YOUTH IN CRISIS; MARY ELLEN PAUL DISBURSEMENT - Good Shepherd Health Care System (gshcs)
GS FACILITIES DEPT - PURCHASE HAM RADIO TO ALLOW COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GSMC AND UMATILLA COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER ($6,800) / SOUL CARE - PURCHASE RESOURCES FOR PASTORS AND TRAINING FOR SOUL CARE MANAGER ($1,295) / GS CHILDREN'S CENTER - TO BUILD A SHADE STRUCTURE FOR CHILDREN'S CENTER PLAYGROUND ($15,000) / GS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND OUTREACH - TO PROMOTE AND PURCHASE FOOD / MATERIALS FOR FAMILY HEALTH AND FITNESS DAY EVENT. ($7,100), EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FUND ($27,898) - Stepping Stone Alliance
PORTABLE MULTI STATION SHOWER/ RESTROOM UNIT - Made to Thrive
BASKETBALL COURTS/ LIGHTING / SOCCER GOALS, 10 PICKLEBALL COURTS NEAR FUNLAND PLAYGROUND, AND PORTABLE NETTING FOR SPORTS FIELS - Umatilla County Fire District #1
AUTO PULSE AND ACCESSORIES - Domestic Violence Services Inc
NEW FLOORING FOR BUILDING ($10,000) / MARY ELLEN PAUL DISBURSEMENT ($4,995.94)
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 15 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $237,544 | $12,794 |
| 2022 | 11 | $191,890 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $192,305 | $8,740 |
| 2024 | 10 | $149,150 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $10,000 -- 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 Good Shepherd Community Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 610 Nw 11TH Street, Hermiston, OR, 97838.
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