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Smf Foundationlrm 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.

$129k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$206kHealth$141kEducation$123kPhilanthropy$90kEnvironment$53kCivil Rights$52kInternational$22kReligion$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH (AMFAR)$44,500
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC$11,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CFDA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC$10,000
THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC$9,650
CFDA FOUNDATION INC$7,000
NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT$6,000
PRODUCER HUB$3,000
THE FRICK COLLECTION$2,745
PERFORMA INC$2,000
THE FRICK COLLECTION$1,040
THE FRICK COLLECTION$870
THE CHELSEA FACTORY INC$700
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 (FY18–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPECIAL CHILDRENS CENTER: $440 → 12%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $11k → 17%HENRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $5k → 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.
$576k · 23 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

$576k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+24%

Still filing today

74%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther

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

  • TP
    THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +170%
  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +58%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • SF
    SMF FOUNDATION GC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -74%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +43%

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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
4
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
7
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
12
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stonewall Community Foundation 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.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr13%44%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
12%
4,366/37,296

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 55 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
25/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY — $105,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH (AMFAR) — $102,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH (AMFAR)The Frick Collection — $62,188 · OtherThe Frick CollectionTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $16,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $16,125 · Other+21 more — $50,804 · Other+21 moreTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $81,350 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MU…FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $19,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIG…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMA INC — $4,780 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSMF FOUNDATION GC — $50,000 · PhilanthropySMF FOUNDATIO…CFDA FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 · PhilanthropyCFDA FOUNDATI…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated C…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $6,400 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK…NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $28,328 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $24,900 · EnvironmentHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $32,978 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $7,500 · Civil RightsSTONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,800 · Civil RightsTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $22,550 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,740 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 · HealthSAVE VENICE INC — $15,750 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $6,718 · International+1 more — $200 · International
Other$352,117Arts & Culture$122,630Philanthropy$84,900Environment$53,228Civil Rights$48,278Health$38,290International$37,668

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 budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC — $81,350 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $62,188 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMF FOUNDATION GC — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $32,978 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $28,328 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $24,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $22,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCFDA FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $16,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC — $15,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,740 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $6,718 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMA INC — $4,780 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN — $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOFFO INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetART PRODUCTION FUND INC — $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC REGIONAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHELSEA FACTORY INC — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER — $440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Foundationlrm 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Smf Foundationlrm Inc?

Find your warmest path to Smf Foundationlrm 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 55 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.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines