California · Private foundation
Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $850k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $850k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $865k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $535k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $583k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $555k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $811k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $726k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $589k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $220,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Calm Inc | $205,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rescue Mission Alliance | $195,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara | $160,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Marian Regional Medical Center Foundation | $140,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Partners in Caring | $130,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Santa Maria Valley Humane Society | $80,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition Dba Move Santa Barbara County | $75,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Orcutt Area Seniors in Service Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark and Dorothy Smith Family 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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation with peer funders
About Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation
- How much does Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation give?
- Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Health (21%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($220k), Calm Inc ($205k), Rescue Mission Alliance ($195k).
- Does Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
- Where is Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation based?
- Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation is based in CA.
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