How much does Smith-Welsh Foundation give?

Smith-Welsh Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $387,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Smith-Welsh Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (13%).

Who are Smith-Welsh Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc ($267k), Western Rivers Conservancy ($180k), The Natural History Museum Santa Maria California ($170k).

Does Smith-Welsh Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Smith-Welsh 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 Smith-Welsh Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.

Where is Smith-Welsh Foundation based?

Smith-Welsh Foundation is based in ID.

Smith-Welsh Foundation

Smith-Welsh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Smith-Welsh Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$388k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$839kArts & Culture$463kHealth$323kAnimals$208kHuman Services$152kEducation$124kHousing & Shelter$75kRecreation & Sports$64kOther$0

02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k32 grants · $143k
$10k–50k14 grants · $195k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN	$50,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM	$25,000
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST	$25,000
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL	$15,000
IDAHO WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$10,000
BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS	$10,000
HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND	$10,000
CABRILLO AQUARIUMMUSEUM	$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LA	$10,000
CALIFORNIA TROUT	$10,000
CATALINA ISLAND MUSEUM	$10,000
NATIVE FISH SOCIETY	$10,000
TROUT UNLIMITED	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 63 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+12%

Still filing today

54%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

SC
SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +160%
SV
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC
6× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +7%
CI
Catalina Island Museum
9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +112%

Funded once

PC
PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +12%
TH
THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -4%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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Fishery Foundation of California

To improve fisheries resources in the state of california.

Animals

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment

Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment

Long Live the Kings

Our mission is to restore wild salmon and steelhead & support sustainable fishing in the pacific northwest.

Animals

Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal

Save the Redwoods League

Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.

Environment

Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation

The foundation board is comprised of members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who devote their shared commitment and passion to collectively support protection and restoration of the washington coast region salmon by providing…

Animals

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Klamath River Renewal Corporation

Krrc's mission is to implement the klamath hydroelectric settlement agreement by removing four hydroelectric dams on the klamath river, restoring surrounding lands, and implementing required mitigation measures. (continued on schedule o)as…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toberman Neighborhood Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Idaho Wildlife Federation. 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

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 78 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/45

Grantees still filing

31/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,092,870Environment$601,000Arts & Culture$296,540Animals$195,400Education$175,350Health$115,000Human Services$55,150

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

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.

California Community FoundationCA24.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marcil Family Foundation · Oarsmen Foundation · Julie and Ray Craemer Family Foundation · The Green Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Fred and Peggy Hartley Family 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 Smith-Welsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith-Welsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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