How much did JEFFREY AND MARY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of JEFFREY AND MARY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

internationalenvironmental

2020

—

2021

defense

2022

—

2023

santa barbara

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $145k
$50k–250k2 grants · $155k

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION$80,000
OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION$75,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$40,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$35,000
FISH REEF PROJECT$25,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA BARBARA BASEBALL PARENTS ASSOCIATION$10,000
TEACHERS SUPPORTING TEACHERS$10,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 19 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+50%

Still filing today

79%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHealthEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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
6× · 2019–2024 · $380k · revenue +178%
OM
OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +61%
ND
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +22%

Funded once

THE EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +92%
MC
MAYO CLINICgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +29%
NP
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +194%

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.

Marine Megafauna Foundation

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

International

NatureServe

NatureServe is the global leader in data, science and technology to conserve biodiversity.

Environment

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Rewild

Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving earth where all life flourishes.

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech

Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places. Our field work focuses on rainforest restoration and conservation,…

Animals

Turtle Island Restoration Network

Turtle island restoration network is a leading advocate for the world's oceans and marine wildlife. our work is based on science, fueled by people who care, and effective at catalyzing long-lasting positive change that protects the likes…

Environment

Oceanic Preservation Society

Expose the truth. protect the planet. we expose complex, global environmental issues and promote advocacy through the use of film, photography, social media, and collaboration.

Environment

Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions.

Environment

Oceans Initiative

Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life and the ecosystems on which they depend, and to share our innovative science to guide conservation action.

Science & Tech

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today's greatest global challenges. together, we create evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildaid Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,533

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.

05the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

27/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$853,000Health$230,000Environment$200,000Animals$75,000Civil Rights$50,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Education$25,000

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.

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 FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Marin Community 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FISH REEF PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 452587074 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FISH REEF PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

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

Find your warmest path to Jeffrey and Mary Smith Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JEFFREY AND MARY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

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JEFFREY AND MARY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

More from the funding graph