How much did LINDA I SMITH FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of LINDA I SMITH 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

2018

performing artsarts education

2019

performing artsarts educationwounded veterans

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

disabled personsaffected augustaugust mauimaui wildfiresdisabilities

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

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $138k
$10k–50k8 grants · $96k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$20,000
RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE$15,000
OCEAN INSTITUTE$10,500
CDF FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION$10,000
PATRIOTIC SERVICE DOG$10,000
THE TEEN PROJECT INC$10,000
WAY OUT WEST EQUINE RESCUE$10,000
CATERINA'S CLUB$10,000
THE ACHIEVERS - DSUSA OC$9,000
LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN$8,000
KIDSINGERS$8,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH$7,500
BLUE STAR RANCH$7,500
KIDWORKS$7,500
HANDS TOGETHER$7,500

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 66% of those 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 45 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+37%

Still filing today

58%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther

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

CF
CDF FIREFIGHTERS' BENEVOLENT FNDN
7× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +114%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH
8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +55%
K
KIDSINGERS
7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +1%

Funded once

SP
SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +62%
ZS
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
PF
PAWZ FOR WOUNDED VETERANS
one grant, 2017 · $8k

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.

San Diego Humane Society & Spca

Sheltering, adoptions, humane practices, protection, and rehabilitation for animals.

Animals

Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals

Santa Cruz Co Animal Shelter Foundation

To support santa cruz county animal services authority through education, public awareness, fund raising, support of current projects, and establishment of new projects.

Animals

Wildlife Rescue Center of Napa

See Schedule O. We support and advocate for wildlife through: rehabilitation, educaiton, community outreach and partnerships in order to promote sustainable and healthy eco-systems in Napa County for the present and future generations.

Unclassified

Monterey Zoological Society Inc

Our goal is to educate visitors about the challenges facing both captive and wild animals to increase understanding and support while promoting conservation. monterey zoological society strives to maintain a diverse group of wildlife…

Animals

California Dressage Society

To foster an interest among horseman in the art of dressage.

Animals

Southern California Shiba Inu Rescue

Southern California Shiba Inu Rescue is a group of volunteer dog lovers whose mission is to rescue, provide sanctuary, and ultimately to re-home abandoned, stray and neglected dogs. Whenever possible we also assist dogs who, because of…

Animals

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The museum inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.

Arts & Culture

Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation

The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the ocean. Millions of people worldwide draw inspiration from the Aquarium and look to us to advocate for the ocean and its wildlife.

Animals

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation

It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Health

Fighting Chance Ranch & Rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. 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.

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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/46

the rest of the field

13%

10,704/82,002

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

43 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)

39/43

Grantees still filing

31/43

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,014,500Human Services$177,500Health$177,500Animals$120,000Religion$63,000Recreation & Sports$57,500Arts & Culture$53,000

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA37.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · California Foundation For · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Frome Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing · National Charity League Inc - Monarch Chapter · Change A Life Foundation · Oneroot 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 LINDA I SMITH 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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. 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: BLUE STAR RANCH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 465469268 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 BLUE STAR RANCH, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% 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 Linda I Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Linda I Smith 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.

LINDA I SMITH 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

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Linda I Smith Foundation?

More from the funding graph

LINDA I SMITH 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

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Linda I Smith Foundation?

More from the funding graph