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Jeffrey and Mary Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$785kEnvironment$385kCivil Rights$175kPublic Safety & Disaster$135kAnimals$85kRecreation & Sports$80kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION$85,000
OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION$40,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$25,000
FISH REEF PROJECT$25,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$25,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA$15,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$15,000
APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL$15,000
UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$15,000
GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY SERVICE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 20 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
21

Total granted

$1.5M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+30%

Still filing today

95%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsAnimalsEducationHealthInternationalOther

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

  • CD
    CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $465k · revenue +72%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +14%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    3× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +89%
  • RL
    RACHEL LYNN HENLEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
9
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
12
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Food Pantries & AssistanceLgbtq+ Community CentersPregnancy Support ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Youth Development CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Education Equity LeadershipHomeless Services & ShelterYouth Sports Booster Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Early Childhood Education C…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Community Health CentersWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%55%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $465,000 · OtherCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH — $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTHENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC — $35,000 · Other+16 more — $178,000 · Other+16 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $115,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEF…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $85,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE…FISH REEF PROJECT — $70,000 · EnvironmentFISH REEF PROJECTHARBOR WILDWATCH — $35,000 · EnvironmentHARBOR WILDWATCH+4 more — $30,000 · Environment+4 moreOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $140,000 · HealthOPEN MEDICINE FOUN…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER …MAYO CLINIC — $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICRACHEL LYNN HENLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $70,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LA…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER …NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $25,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IM…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTI…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…Transgender Law Center — $15,000 · Civil RightsTransgender…THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $50,000 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation Fund — $15,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INC — $5,000 · AnimalsORCA NETWORK — $5,000 · AnimalsAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $15,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $10,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationGIG HARBOR JUNIOR SAILING — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA BASEBALL PARENTS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$813,000Environment$335,000Health$295,000Civil Rights$185,000Animals$75,000Education$50,000Recreation & Sports$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $465,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFISH REEF PROJECT — $70,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR WILDWATCH — $35,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIG HARBOR JUNIOR SAILING — $20,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BASEBALL PARENTS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRACHEL LYNN HENLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTeachers Supporting Teachers — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Sailing Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCLIENTEARTH USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORCA NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Kirby-Jones Found…Hutton Foundation Dba…G a Fowler Family Fou…Williams-Corbett Foun…Dancing Tides Foundat…James S Bower Foundat…Patricia Bragg Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The John C Mithun Fou…Tony and Kyra Rogers …
Santa Barbara FoundationCA25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · James S Bower Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The John C Mithun Foundation · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation

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 Jeffrey and Mary Smith Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jeffrey and Mary Smith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jeffrey and Mary Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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