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Smf Foundationjm Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$855kEducation$325kCivil Rights$140kHealth$76kReligion$52kPhilanthropy$50kEnvironment$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$150,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$110,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$50,000
THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INC$50,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$40,000
THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INC$30,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$25,000
KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$1.2M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthReligionCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2022–2024 · $310k · revenue +39%
  • TM
    THE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +69%
  • SI
    STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SI
    STUDIO IN THE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SF
    SMF FOUNDATION GC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%

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
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

10
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and the most unlike its peers is Smf Foundation Gc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $310,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INC — $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INCMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $175,000 · OtherSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIA…STUDIO IN THE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 · OtherSTUDIO IN THE SCHOOL ASSOC…NYU LANGONE HEALTH — $50,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF T…+7 more — $45,000 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $54,900 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA…New York University — $20,000 · EducationNew York UniversityAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $140,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN J…SMF FOUNDATION GC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOPD FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthSANDRA CAPLAN COMMUNITY BET DIN — $4,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$610,000Other$345,000Education$324,900Civil Rights$140,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$25,000Religion$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $310,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT INC — $275,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $175,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $54,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMF FOUNDATION GC — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANDRA CAPLAN COMMUNITY BET DIN — $4,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERFECT EARTH PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Smf Foundationjm Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Museum of Fine Arts0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–60%
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.

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How do I get to Smf Foundationjm Inc?

Find your warmest path to Smf Foundationjm Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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