How much did MARTIN V AND MARTHA K SMITH FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Education$7.7MPhilanthropy$4.4MCrime & Legal$350kHealth$240kHuman Services$220kFood & Nutrition$175kArts & Culture$175kYouth Development$35kOther$135k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

educationexpansioncompleteyouth

2020

—

2021

mentoringhealthcarebuildingstudentshistorychannel islandsyouth

2022

—

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,025

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,025

02The need

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 (FY18–21, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 11 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+26%

Still filing today

91%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2022 · $7.7M · revenue +319%
VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO SMITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
6× · 2018–2023 · $4.4M · revenue +253%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME
3× · 2018–2021 · $225k · revenue +70%

Funded once

AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF VENTURA COUNTY
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +9%
WF
WESTMINSTER FREE CLINICgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +503%
GC
GOLD COAST VETERANS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +356%

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.

Long Term Care Services of Ventura Cty

The ventura county ombudsman program's mission is to assure the highest quality of life and care possible for those elderly persons in long term care, most of whom are frail and vulnerable and unable to represent themselves.

Human Services

Ventura County Coastal Association

Our mission is to be the local advocate for realtors; to enhance the professionalism, integrity, and compentency of members; and to promote private property rights.

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Ventura County Medical Resource

To improve, in partnership with others, access to needed health care for the most vulnerable and underserved children and seniors of ventura county.

Health

Ventura College Foundation

The Ventura College Foundation transforms students lives through education by providing innovative and vital resources and financial support. The Foundation collaborates with Ventura College to enhance human potential, civic engagement,…

Education

Ventura County Taxpayers Foundation

Taxpayer education

Human Services

Ventura County Community Development

To strengthen and sustain vibrant communities by empowering individuals and families to build wealth through education and homeownership with a primary focus on serving low-to-moderate income clients.

Community Improvement

California Vocations Inc

The organization provides residential and vocation support to persons with developmental disabilities.

Employment

Laguna Beach Community Clinic

To provide primary medical and other service programs to individuals and families.

Health

Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa

Provides employment skills to challenged individuals, serves the community by helping people with barriers to employment achieve economic independence through training, educating and employment

Human Services

Amvets Department of California

Veterans association with the mission to provide veteran programs and support to all veterans and veteran families.

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Venice Family Clinic

To provide quality primary health care to people in need.

Health

Ventura Charter School of Arts and

Ventura charter school of arts and global education is a not-for-profit public charter school.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ventura County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Terra Marine Research and Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

11/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$7,680,576Philanthropy$4,366,806Crime & Legal$350,000Health$240,000Human Services$220,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Arts & Culture$175,000Other$170,000

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.

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.

Ventura County Community FoundationCA28.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · Sherwood Country Club Charitable · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Dignity Health · Santa Barbara Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation MARTIN V AND MARTHA K 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 770125733 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARTIN V AND MARTHA K SMITH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation?

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MARTIN V AND MARTHA K SMITH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation?

More from the funding graph