· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westcoast Sports Associates | $40,000 |
| United Way of Greater Los Angeles | $40,000 |
| Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles | $40,000 |
| St Vincent Meals on Wheels | $30,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $30,000 |
| Westside Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Pediatric Cancer Research Foundatio | $25,000 |
| ALS Network | $25,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - ORANGE COUN | $25,000 |
| Regents of the University of Califo | $25,000 |
| Boys Republic | $25,000 |
| Tierra Del Sol Foundation | $25,000 |
| Orange County United Way | $25,000 |
| Venice Family Clinic | $25,000 |
| Angel Flight West | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles7× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +78%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +110%- BRBoys Republic8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $40k
- UNUSC - NORRIS CANCER HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $25k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
145 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Boys Republic ↗
- 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 ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- 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 Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lon V Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lon V Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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