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Smiling Rocks Foundation Inc at a glance

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Smiling Rocks Foundation 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.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$139kEnvironment$118kPhilanthropy$36kHuman Services$36kArts & Culture$26kInternational$16kAnimals$10kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$6,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$429k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Y4D FOUNDATION$53,000
WOMEN'S JEWELRY ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$10,300
FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$6,250
ONE TREE PLANTED INC$4,100
JEWELERS FOR CHILDREN$4,000
TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC$4,000
SPACE FOR GIANTS USA INC$1,031
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 60% of grant dollars ($230k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 40% that went abroad ($154k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEWA INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
NY
CA
VA
MD
TN
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 40% of all-years giving ($154k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$143k · 4 grants
Kenya$11k · 1 grant
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Smiling Rocks Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Smiling Rocks Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 40% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 7 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$251k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+47%

Still filing today

86%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OT
    ONE TREE PLANTED INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +227%
  • SF
    Space for Giants USA Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +354%
  • TF
    TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • 4O
    4 OCEAN PUBLIC
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • TG
    TRACEABLE GIVING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • SF
    SPACE FOR GIANTS
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
2
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
3
Synchronicity Earth Usa Inc

Raise awareness about the issue, science, and solutions behind the world ecological crisis. the principal activity of the corporation is raising money to support the charitable activities of synchronicity earth in the united kingdom, which…

Environment
4
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
5
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
6
Well Aware Inc

Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.

International
7
Karuna Foundation

Making distributions to individuals and organizations that advocate for and/or support the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens, particularly by addressing humanitarian crises or deficiencies in nutrition…

Animals
8
Ccof Certification Services Llc

Ccof certification services, llc, a wholly owned subsidiary of california certified organic farmers inc., provides a wide array of cost-effective, organic certification programs. ccof certifies farm and livestock operations, processors,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
10
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
11
Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International
12
OneReef Worldwide Stewardship

OneReefs mission is to ensure healthy ocean ecosystems and thriving coastal communities across the Pacific.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees for the Future Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Y4D FOUNDATION: $125,422 · OtherY4D FOUNDATION4 OCEAN PUBLIC: $31,000 · Other4 OCEAN PUBLICTRACEABLE GIVING FOUNDATION: $17,849 · OtherTRACEABLE GIVING FOUNDATIONSPACE FOR GIANTS: $11,000 · OtherSPACE FOR GIANTS+4 more: $5,175 · OtherONE TREE PLANTED INC: $31,700 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTE…JEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $16,500 · PhilanthropyJEWELERS FOR CH…GOFUNDMEORG: $2,100 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOR T…4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $18,300 · Environment4OCEAN CHAR…National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $36,250 · Crime & LegalNational L…Space for Giants USA Inc: $26,031 · AnimalsWOMENS JEWELRY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 · HealthNAMI National: $945 · HealthSewa International Inc: $2,400 · Human Services
Other$190,446Philanthropy$52,300Environment$39,300Crime & Legal$36,250Animals$26,031Arts & Culture$25,000Health$12,945Human Services$2,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $36,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $31,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpace for Giants USA Inc: $26,031 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWOMENS JEWELRY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $18,300 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWELERS FOR CHILDREN: $16,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSewa International Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $945 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smiling Rocks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smiling Rocks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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