· Private foundation
Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOODBANK SB COUNTY | $80,000 |
| MARIAN REGIONAL MED CTR (CSU) | $70,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CENTRAL COAST | $30,000 |
| CASA | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| CALM | $30,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $27,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER SB | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| OASIS | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| HEARTS ALIGNED | $25,000 |
| HILLSIDE HOUSE | $22,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $540k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICALM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +85%
- RMRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +16%
- AFANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SMSANTA MARIA VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +19%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELLING CENTER SBone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (LIBERTY)one grant, 2019 · $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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
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 SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
Provide continued rehabilitation, hope, and community for people affected by brain injury.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
The purpose of the medical staff of santa barbara is to assure that all patients admitted to or treated at cottage health facilities (hospitals) receive a uniform standard of quality care, treatment and efficiency consistent with generally…
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 96 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
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 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 SANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION DBA MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORCUTT AREA SENIORS IN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Central Coast California ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Hearts Aligned Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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