· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $1,000 |
| PEO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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'…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 82 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 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 ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dorothy & Chester Smith Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy & Chester Smith Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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