· Private foundation
Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $658k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOODBANK SB COUNTY | $75,000 |
| MARIAN REGIONAL MED CTR (CSU) | $70,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT CENTRAL COAST | $39,000 |
| SANTA MARIA VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| CASA | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CENTRAL COAST | $30,000 |
| HILLSIDE HOUSE | $29,000 |
| YMCA OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY | $25,000 |
| OASIS | $25,000 |
| HEARTS ALIGNED | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $25,000 |
| CALM | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $480k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CICALM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +85%
- RMRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +16%
- AFANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELLING CENTER SBone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (LIBERTY)one grant, 2019 · $25k
- MRMARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The santa barbara rescue mission is a ministry of christian people bringing physical, emotional, educational and spiritual resources to all who struggle with homelessness and addiction.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Maria Valley Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Las Vegas Victims' Fund. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 89 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN CARING ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORCUTT AREA SENIORS IN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION DBA MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Central Coast California ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall 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 Mark and Dorothy Smith Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.