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Phyllis and Irving Smith 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.

$214k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$51,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$211k50%
FY202410$95k20%
FY20239$109k56%
FY202121$100k71%
FY202021$99kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$321kEducation$224kHuman Services$69kFood & Nutrition$66kArts & Culture$42kPhilanthropy$16kReligion$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($263k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScripps Health: $151,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $17,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Diego: $12,612 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hotchkiss School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastWest Food Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding San Diego: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDalton Schools Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis Parker School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRuth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charties of Northeastern Pensylvania Inc: $2,931 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWashington Montessori Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Beyond Breast Cancer: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pad Project: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Key Clubhouse of South Florida Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation

How much does Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation give?
Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $214,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (19%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Scripps Health ($152k), Sharsheret Inc ($35k), Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance ($32k).
Does Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation based?
Phyllis and Irving Smith Foundation is based in CA.

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 52 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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