California · Private foundation
Linda I Smith 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.
- $238k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Linda I Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $233k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $228k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $216k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $212k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $203k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $178k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $195k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $202k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $152,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Red Bucket Equine Rescue | $119,700 | 9 | 2% |
| Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Caterinas Club | $79,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Ocean Institute | $73,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cal Fire Benevolent Foundation | $62,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach | $58,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Kidworks Community Development Corp | $57,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Laguna College of Art & Design | $57,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Teen Project Inc | $57,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Linda I Smith Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The William Gillespie Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · Peter and Mary Muth Foundation CO R Chad Hales
How this is measured
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About Linda I Smith Foundation
- How much does Linda I Smith Foundation give?
- Linda I Smith Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $238,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Linda I Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Animals (19%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Linda I Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center ($153k), Red Bucket Equine Rescue ($120k), Jf Shea Therapeutic Riding Center Inc Fka Fran Joswick Therap Riding Ctr Inc ($80k).
- Does Linda I Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Linda I Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Linda I Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation, The Devto Support Foundation.
- Where is Linda I Smith Foundation based?
- Linda I Smith Foundation is based in CA.
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