· Private foundation
Marvin and Sondra Smalley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Community Foundation | $175,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Mothers 2 Mothers | $75,000 |
| Adat Ari El | $60,000 |
| PANCAN | $50,000 |
| los angeles museum of the holocaust | $50,000 |
| Jewish Federation | $25,000 |
| WALLIS HOUSE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $7,000 |
| concern foundation | $5,000 |
| CRATERIAN THEATRE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $3,600 |
| BRING ON THE MUSIC | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +22%
- BTBeit T'Shuvah8× · 2017–2024 · $254k · revenue +57%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM SCULPTUREone grant, 2019 · $12k
- SCSTOP CANCERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TLThe LAM Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +25%
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
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How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 82 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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds She Angels Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Project Miracle ↗
- Who funds The Pad Project ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds STOP CANCER ↗
- Who funds BRING ON THE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Center for Justice ↗
- Who funds The LAM Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · California Community Foundation · Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Wurwand Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marvin and Sondra Smalley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin and Sondra Smalley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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