California · Private foundation
Smidt Family Foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 84
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $69M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Smidt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $1.0M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $2.0M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 84 | $5.5M | 55% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $2.7M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $668k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $1.3M | 23% |
| FY2017 | 69 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Scottish Rite Foundation | $543,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Union Rescue Mission | $385,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Midnight Mission | $380,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Women of Substance & Men of Honor | $335,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brain Injury Center of Ventura County | $260,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Salvadoran Committee El Piche | $255,000 | 7 | 57% |
Show all 136 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Smidt Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Miller Family Fund · Schlinger Family Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Smidt Family Foundation
- How much does Smidt Family Foundation give?
- Smidt Family Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $1,185,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 84 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Smidt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Education (13%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are Smidt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Scottish Rite Foundation ($543k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($450k), Union Rescue Mission ($385k).
- Does Smidt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smidt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smidt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation.
- Where is Smidt Family Foundation based?
- Smidt Family Foundation is based in CA.
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