California · Private foundation
Lon V Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 116
- Grants FY2024
- 113
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 113 to 136
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Lon V Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 114 | $1.5M | 1% |
| FY2023 | 113 | $1.5M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 116 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $1.6M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 119 | $1.6M | 4% |
| FY2019 | 128 | $1.6M | 8% |
| FY2018 | 133 | $1.6M | 12% |
| FY2017 | 136 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way Inc | $325,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $260,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Venice Family Clinic | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys Republic | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Las Floristas Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 8% |
| The Salvation Army | $197,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity Inc | $185,000 | 5 | 35% |
| Tierra del Sol Foundation | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital | $177,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Angel Flight West Inc | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lon V Smith Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Shelter Partnership Inc · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lon V Smith Foundation
- How much does Lon V Smith Foundation give?
- Lon V Smith Foundation reported 116 grants totaling $1,532,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 113 and 136 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lon V Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (21%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Lon V Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way Inc ($325k), Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($260k), Venice Family Clinic ($200k).
- Does Lon V Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lon V 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 Lon V Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ahmanson Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Lon V Smith Foundation based?
- Lon V Smith Foundation is based in CA.
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