· Private foundation
Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Independent Foundation | $7,500 |
| Colorectal Cancer Alliance | $5,100 |
| Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $5,000 |
| East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring | $3,000 |
| International Rescue Committee | $3,000 |
| Computer History Museum | $2,500 |
| The Voter Participation Center | $2,500 |
| Edwards Center | $2,500 |
| Redeemer Lutheran School | $2,044 |
| Youth On Course | $2,000 |
| Giants Community Fund | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $1,000 |
| Ambition Angels | $1,000 |
| Sutter Health Hospice of the Valley | $1,000 |
| Adolescent Counseling Service | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +63%
- TMThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +93%
- EPEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- ECEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +57%
- SCSAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +1%
- SCSAN CARLOS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambition Angels and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 90 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 International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING ↗
- Who funds AMBITION ANGELS ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INFINITE FAMILY ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Pursuit Of Excellence ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The Intuit 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 Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith 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.
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.
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