California · Public charity
Santa Monica Education Foundation
The Santa Monica Education Foundation (SMEF) raises funds to enhance and supplement the curriculum of every public school in the city of Santa Monica.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,316,178
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,316,178
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Santa Monica Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $2.1M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $304k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Monica Malibu Unifed School District | $3,835,755 | 3 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.
About Santa Monica Education Foundation
- How much does Santa Monica Education Foundation give?
- Santa Monica Education Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $2,316,178, out of $2,544,342 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Santa Monica Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (64%), Education (36%).
- Who are Santa Monica Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Santa Monica Malibu Unifed School District ($3.8M).
- Does Santa Monica Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Santa Monica Education Foundation based?
- Santa Monica Education Foundation is based in CA.
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