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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 FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$3.5MHuman Services$2.7MHousing & Shelter$1.2MYouth Development$978kEmployment$578kEducation$571kPhilanthropy$570kArts & Culture$553kOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles$40,000
Westcoast Sports Associates$40,000
United Way of Greater Los Angeles$40,000
Wounded Warrior Project$30,000
St Vincent Meals on Wheels$30,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - ORANGE COUN$25,000
Angel Flight West$25,000
Tierra Del Sol Foundation$25,000
Westside Food Bank$25,000
Boys Republic$25,000
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundatio$25,000
Orange County United Way$25,000
Venice Family Clinic$25,000
Las Floristas Inc$25,000
ALS Network$25,000
02The need
03

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, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $30k → 11%BOYS REPUBLIC: $25k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $25k → 14%Boys Republic: $25k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $25k → 14%Boys Republic: $25k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $25k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $25k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $25k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $15k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $15k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $15k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $18k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%American Red Cross: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $25k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $20k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $18k → 14%St Joseph Center: $23k → 14%St Joseph Center: $23k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $20k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $20k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $20k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $20k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $20k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $18k → 14%Fulfillment Fund: $20k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $20k → 14%Fulfillment Fund: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 188 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

188 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

188
30

Total granted

$12M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+6%

Still filing today

72%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    7× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +78%
  • BR
    Boys Republic
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +80%
  • VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • UN
    USC - NORRIS CANCER HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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.

1
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
4
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
5
Ascencia

To lift people of out homelessness, one person, one family at a time.

Housing & Shelter
6
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Via Care Community Health Center

Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.

Health
8
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
9
Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…

Health
10
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
11
The Center in Hollywood

The center provides a place of community to end isolation, build relationships, and introduce housing, health and wellness services to adult individuals experiencing homelessness in hollywood. it contracts with public and non-profit grant…

Human Services
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All for Kids Organization and the most unlike its peers is Global Mobility. 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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr10%34%35–55yr12%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr10%37%35–55yr12%40%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/149
the rest of the field
15%
9,956/64,965

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.

04the grantee network

145 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. 145 of the 220 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/145
Grantees still filing
112/145
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+114 more — $6,063,500 · Other+114 moreBoys Republic — $200,000 · Human ServicesBoys RepublicAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $162,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red C…ST JOSEPH CENTER — $162,500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $145,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF L…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT…FULFILLMENT FUND — $120,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $115,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $112,500 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION — $112,500 · Human ServicesOPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER — $105,000 · Human ServicesFoothill Family Service — $95,000 · Human ServicesUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $90,000 · Human ServicesProyecto Pastoral — $90,000 · Human Services+25 more — $938,500 · Human Services+25 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $260,000 · HealthChildren's Hospit…VENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $200,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLI…PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $177,500 · HealthPENINSULA COMMITT…ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $175,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST…VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE — $115,000 · HealthVALLEY COMMUNITY …ALS UNITED GREATER SAN DIEGO — $110,000 · HealthALS UNITED GREATE…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $95,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $90,000 · HealthPARTNERS FOR PEDIATRIC VISION — $90,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY — $90,000 · HealthALS Network — $80,000 · Health+14 more — $485,000 · Health+14 moreUNITED WAY INC — $325,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $195,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $140,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LOS ANGELES POLICE ACADEMY MAGNET SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyLAS FLORISTAS INC — $200,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $85,000 · EducationThe Blind Childrens Center Inc — $82,500 · EducationProject Hope Alliance — $60,000 · EducationPUENTE LEARNING CENTER — $35,000 · EducationHAMBURGER HOME — $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+1 more — $13,000 · EducationTierra del Sol Foundation — $180,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA — $160,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · EmploymentMUSIC WILL INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureSHAREWELL — $80,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC CHORALE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,063,500Human Services$2,588,500Health$1,967,500Philanthropy$750,000Education$540,500Employment$440,000Arts & Culture$360,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY INC — $325,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $260,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Republic — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAS FLORISTAS INC — $200,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $195,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $185,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetTierra del Sol Foundation — $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $177,500 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $175,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $165,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $162,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER — $162,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA — $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCOAST SPORTS ASSOCIATES INC — $160,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $155,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC — $145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $130,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND — $120,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $120,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION — $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE — $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC — $112,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $112,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $112,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $112,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER SAN DIEGO — $110,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFOSTERALL — $105,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetOPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER — $105,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFoothill Family Service — $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $95,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES — $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PEDIATRIC VISION — $90,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY — $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $90,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL EYE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc — $82,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSHAREWELL — $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budget
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 UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds Boys Republic ↗
  • Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds LAS FLORISTAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Tierra del Sol Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds WESTCOAST SPORTS ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERALL ↗
  • Who funds OPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The Green FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Shelter Partnership I…Henry L Guenther Foun…Orange County Communi…Sempra Foundation
The Ahmanson FoundationCA83.5× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lon V 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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: 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lon V Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lon V Smith Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 220 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home