· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $424k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $200,000 |
| BLUE RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YAC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LA | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $50,000 |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC | $50,000 |
| MEADOWS ARTS AND TECH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| OPERA SANTA BARBARA | $25,000 |
| STAR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AND CHILD CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| SOARING SPIRITS INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| SALVADORAN COMMITTEE EL PICHE | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
96 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CSCALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $543k · revenue +73%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +78%- URUNION RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- PFPABLOVE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -22%
- PPPAREENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHYone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angelesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hope 4 Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 187 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE & MEN OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY CENTER OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SALVADORAN COMMITTEE EL PICHE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MANNA CONEJO VALLEY FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds END HOMELESSNESS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WEST LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds Young Athletes for Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CULVER PALMS MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
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.
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
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 Smidt Family Foundation 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.