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Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400 at a glance

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Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

52% of Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400 named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

66
’20
73
’21
76
’22
10
’23
0
’24

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

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$13MEducation$582kArts & Culture$505kHealth$401kYouth Development$249kHuman Services$226kFood & Nutrition$194kReligion$145kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,250
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH$7,500
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOUNDATION OF$5,000
ENGLISH IN ACTION$5,000
HARVESTERS THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$3,000
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUB$2,500
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$2,500
PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION$2,500
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE$2,250
AMERICA ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$2,200
LIBERTY COUNSEL INC$2,000
ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY$2,000
UNITED CHARITABLE FBO FAIR CHARITABLE$1,000
ST ANN SCHOOL$1,000
SAINT PAULS OUTREACH$1,000
BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY20–22, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $23k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $10k → 15%VALUE UNCONDITIONAL: $3k → 8%VALUE UNCONDITIONAL: $3k → 18%MUST MINISTRIES: $8k → 8%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $8k → 15%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $1k → 16%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $5k → 15%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $8k → 15%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $1k → 16%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%EPEC INC: $3k → 15%FAITHBRIDGE FOSTER CARE: $10k → 13%UNBOUND: $2k → 16%EPEC THE GROOMING PROJECT: $3k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%EPEC INC: $3k → 15%Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse: $50k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $40k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $20k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $3k → 15%PALISADES PRIDE: $5k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $10k → 14%THE CENTER AT BLESSED SACRAMENT: $20k → 14%THE CENTER AT BLESSED SACRAMENT: $20k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 87 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 80 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

87
64

Total granted

$2.4M
$581k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+18%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • IT
    INVISIBLE THEATRE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $142k · revenue +65%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $135k · revenue +22%
  • TC
    TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $112k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FND
    one grant, 2021 · $170k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • CD
    CU DEPT OF NEUROSURGERY
    one grant, 2022 · $33k
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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
12
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Denver Junior Golf. 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

107 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. 107 of the 164 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
80/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE TO THE RALPH SMITH: $5,940,625 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE TO THE RALPH SMITH+96 more: $1,593,034 · Other+96 moreGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $4,633,443 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community FoundationDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,117,221 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+3 more: $55,500 · PhilanthropyINVISIBLE THEATRE: $141,667 · Arts & CultureLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $56,665 · Arts & CultureTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureArizona Theatre Company: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $21,375 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $111,667 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION: $42,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+12 more: $87,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $134,500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $20,000 · EducationHarmony Project: $20,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $15,000 · Education+10 more: $26,250 · EducationDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $55,000 · HealthALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC: $55,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · HealthBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $26,542 · HealthSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,533,659Philanthropy$6,806,164Arts & Culture$314,707Human Services$306,667Education$280,750Health$255,542Youth Development$202,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $4,633,443 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,117,221 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orme School: $178,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINVISIBLE THEATRE: $141,667 over 3y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $134,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $111,667 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN AMERICA: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC: $56,665 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED OF GEORGIA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGAMMA MU FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $30,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStep Up To Justice: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHarmony Project: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Feet International: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY CAMPS: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEFENDING EDUCATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER JUNIOR GOLF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFaithBridge Foster Care Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…John J Sullivan Jr Fo…United Way of Greater…Marion and Henry Bloc…Community Foundation …The Don & Jean Wagner…The Shumaker Family F…The Kansas City Royal…Jewish Community Foun…The Francis Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO35.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 164 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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