· Private foundation
Les & Judy Smout Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORTON PLANT MEASE HC FDN | $16,500 |
| CENTRAL PASCO & GULF RR | $16,000 |
| WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| RINGLING MUSEUN OF ART | $6,000 |
| WARRIOR WELLNESS | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ARTS IN MOTION | $5,000 |
| SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| RIDGE LIVE STEAMERS | $2,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MEDINA | $2,500 |
| INTL INDEP SHOWMAN'S MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| CART FUND INC | $2,500 |
| FLORIDA ODYSSEY OF THE MIND | $2,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- TCTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +105%
- RLRidge Live Steamers Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +162%
- FRFLORIDA RAILROAD MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CYCOMM YOUTH THEATRE ARTS EDUCone grant, 2024 · $8k
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- KHKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -49%
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.
As the areas premier no-kill shelter, the humane society of sarasota county engages the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…
Curatorial conservation of objects relating to horse racing industry
The sarasota classic car museum (sccm) exists to acquire, preserve and exhibit the evolutionary, dwindling cars of the 20th century. we seek to provide a foundation for scholarly research and learning programs that inspire an interest in…
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
Curating the world for all children to explore
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum brings to life the innovation, thrill, and cultural significance of motor racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Provide support for operations and programs offered by the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa.
The mission of the pennsylvania trolley museum is to preserve and perpetuate its cllection of historic transportation equipment, artifacts and archives and utilize the collection and other resources to provide an unparalleled immersive…
Established in 1986 to operate the Barnum Museum and the related gallery. The Foundation's mission is to inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence through instructive entertainment.THE MUSEUM IS A RELEVANT INSTITUTION OF LEARNING,…
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Int'l Ind Showmen's Museum Corp. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 108 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 THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ridge Live Steamers Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Prescott Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM LEAP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWMENS ASSOC CHARITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CART FUND INC ↗
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: Pinellas Community Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Copperhead Charities Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Les & Judy Smout 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boley Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Florida Railroad Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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.