· Private foundation
Dorothy & Chester Smith Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LACNETS FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA | $15,444 |
| NET RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,300 |
| SINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH OF SANTA CL | $5,000 |
| ACTON METHODIST CHURCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| VELVET ASHES | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| TEAM EXPANSION | $1,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA AFE FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| FOOD BANK SANTA BARBARA | $1,200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,100 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY | $1,000 |
| PEO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CAMAS WASHOUGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- NTNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +66%
- WFWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +41%
- ASAnimal Shelter Assistance Program5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- SMSINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +3%
- SUSC UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ISINTERNATIONAL STUDENT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +33%
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.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.
The santa maria valley humane society exists to rescue, shelter, heal, place, and train dogs and cats while engaging the central california coastal community to end animal homelessness.
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Biola University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 82 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 NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Animal Shelter Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL HOEFFLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds VELVET ASHES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRANBURY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST COLUMBIA GORGE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREEDER RELEASE ADOPTION SERVICE ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FARM ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Instruments Foundation · Network for Good · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Dorothy & Chester 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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