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Michael S Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$121kReligion$78kCivil Rights$10kPhilanthropy$2kHealth$1kFood & Nutrition$205Housing & Shelter$162Public Safety & Disaster$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$918k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BOCA HELPING HANDS$100
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$18
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MA
CA
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DC
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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 — 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$123k · 3 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +719% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
28

Total granted

$123k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+719%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $121k · revenue +20%
  • G
    GOFUNDMEORG
    2× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue +719%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $38

Funded once

  • I
    IDF
    one grant, 2024 · $78k
  • A
    AIPAC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
10
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $121,204 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITYIDF — $77,532 · OtherIDFAIPAC — $10,000 · OtherAIPAC+17 more — $4,688 · OtherGOFUNDMEORG — $1,349 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $140 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $100 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $60 · HealthSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $35 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $25 · Health+1 more — $10 · HealthFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $105 · Food & NutritionBOCA HELPING HANDS INC — $100 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION — $50 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $80 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $30 · Civil Rights
Education$121,204Other$92,220Philanthropy$1,349Health$370Food & Nutrition$205Human Services$150Civil Rights$110

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $121,204 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $1,349 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc — $78 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $64 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP INC — $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Michael S Smith Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc2% of income from government
  • Wayside House Inc1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University1% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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