· Private foundation
Smaby 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $30,000 |
| ST OLAF COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $12,500 |
| NORWAY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIDS MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS CULTURAL CENTER | $1,200 |
| SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +51%
- SOST OLAF COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +14%
- MCMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN4× · 2020–2023 · $39k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +137%
- SOST OLAF SPECIAL 50TH GIFTone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TATIGERLION ARTSone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -59%
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
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 30 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 SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Norway House ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TIGERLION ARTS ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS MODERN COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SENIOR ADVOCATES OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PURPOSEFUL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smaby Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smaby Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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