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Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation

To enhance the quality of life for the residents of ventura county, with a preference for serving the oxnard plains.

$4.1M
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Ventura County Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’17
8
’18
11
’19
0
’20
12
’21
1
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$12MYouth Development$416kHealth$330kArts & Culture$225kFood & Nutrition$200kHousing & Shelter$135kHuman Services$130kCrime & Legal$125kOther$0
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION$3,532,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME$75,000
FOOD SHARE INC$75,000
LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VNA$50,000
WESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC$50,000
DRAGG INC$50,000
GOLD COAST VETERANS FOUNDATION$40,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY$35,000
TURNING POINT FOUNDATION$35,000
CAREGIVERS$35,000
VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO SMITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND$25,000
MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY$25,000
TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAREGIVERS: $35k → 10%Caregivers: $30k → 10%CAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING THE ELDERLY: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF VENTURA COUNTY: $100k → 10%Gold Coast Veterans Foundation: $40k → 10%GOLD COAST VETERANS FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 11 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$9.2M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+9%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $7.7M · revenue +302%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME
    4× · 2017–2021 · $325k · revenue +108%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $225k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • RO
    REINS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ventura Land Trust

The mission of the ventura land trust is to permanently protect the land, water, wildlife and scenic beauty of the ventura region for current and future generations.

Environment
2
Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation

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

Health
3
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
4
Venice Family Clinic

To provide quality primary health care to people in need.

Health
5
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
6
Goodwill Industries of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties Inc

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
7
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation

Building partnerships to advance research and education for the health of our nation's veterans.

Health
8
Ventura County Community Development Corporation

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
9
Vnacare

To provide high quality health care services to people of all ages, to promote realization of the individuals' full potential, and to enhance independent living.

Health
10
California Vocations Inc

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

Employment
11
Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors

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.

—
12
San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council Inc

With compassion, collaboration and commitment to action, vic provides services and program that engage and enrich the lives of older adults, families, and youth through a lens of inclusion to strengthen diverse communities in the valley

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ventura County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $7,680,576 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATIONVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,421,806 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME: $325,000 · Crime & LegalDragg Inc: $175,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesCAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING THE ELDERLY: $90,000 · Human ServicesGold Coast Veterans Foundation: $80,000 · Human ServicesREINS OF HOPE: $20,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT FOUNDATION: $130,000 · HealthLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · HealthWESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALVATION ARMY: $120,000 · OtherTERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $105,000 · OtherFOOD SHARE INC: $200,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED: $35,000 · Other
Education$7,680,576Philanthropy$4,421,806Crime & Legal$500,000Human Services$290,000Health$285,000Arts & Culture$225,000Other$460,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $7,680,576 over 4y, 17% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,421,806 over 7y, 14% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME: $325,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $225,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDragg Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetTURNING POINT FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $105,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREGIVERS VOLUNTEERS ASSISTING THE ELDERLY: $90,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetGold Coast Veterans Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetWESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

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.

Ventura County Commun…Conrad N Hilton Found…Sherwood Country Club…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Mufg Union Bank Found…California Community …Told FoundationThe Amgen Foundation …Weingart FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
Ventura County Community FoundationCA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · California Community Foundation · Told Foundation · The Amgen Foundation Inc · Weingart Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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