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Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$66kEducation$53kYouth Development$32kArts & Culture$17kInternational$13kEnvironment$12kPhilanthropy$12kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Voter Participation Center$2,500
Computer History Museum$2,500
Edwards Center$2,500
Redeemer Lutheran School$2,044
Youth On Course$2,000
Palo Alto Medical Foundation$1,000
The Hoover Institution$1,000
Fisher Center for Alzheimers Research$1,000
Sutter Health Hospice of the Valley$1,000
Giants Community Fund$1,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELP A MOTHER OUT: $1k → 10%ABILITIES UNITED: $250 → 7%AVENIDAS: $500 → 8%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $1k → 8%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $1k → 8%YMCA Silicon Valley: $500 → 8%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $500 → 8%YMCA Silicon Valley: $500 → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAN JOSE: $1k → 8%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 53 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
28

Total granted

$214k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+6%

Still filing today

77%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +63%
  • TM
    That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation
    2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +93%
  • AA
    AMBITION ANGELS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +333%

Funded once

  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +57%
  • SC
    SAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • SC
    SAN CARLOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Public Advocates Inc

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,…

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2
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
8
Epacenter

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.

Arts & Culture
9
AI4ALL

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.

Youth Development
10
Public Policy Institute of California

Inform and improve public policy in california through independent, objective, nonpartisan research

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11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ambition Angels; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 90 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
46/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REDEEMER LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $13,780 · OtherREDEEMER LUTHERAN SCHOOLTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONLIFEMOVES: $7,500 · OtherLIFEMOVESNCGA FOUNDATION: $5,600 · OtherFisher Center for Alzheimers Research: $5,000 · OtherHOOVER INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $7,500 · OtherTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTEREAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $9,500 · OtherEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORINGWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $4,750 · OtherEDWARDS CENTER INC: $5,500 · OtherECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $5,000 · Other+41 more: $56,911 · Other+41 moreThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $11,000 · HealthThat Man May See…COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $8,600 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCE…Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $5,000 · HealthVista Center for…ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $5,000 · HealthADOLESCENT COUNS…NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL PKU ALL…SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health+6 more: $3,600 · Health+6 moreAMBITION ANGELS: $9,500 · EducationAMBITION ANG…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BR…EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COL…FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $2,500 · EducationFOUNDATION F…Teach for America Inc: $2,500 · EducationTeach for Am…YEAR UP INC: $2,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,200 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PALO …GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $4,000 · PhilanthropyGIANTS CO…Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $3,750 · PhilanthropySilicon V…SAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropySAN CARLO…INFINITE FAMILY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyINFINITE …IOLA Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyIOLA Foun…PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyPABLOVE F…International Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $4,750 · InternationalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $900 · Arts & CulturePALO ALTO HISTORY MUSEUM: $500 · Arts & CultureEMBARCADERO MEDIA FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$133,541Health$37,700Education$28,200Philanthropy$21,250International$17,750Youth Development$12,000Arts & Culture$11,400

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 budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMBITION ANGELS: $9,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $8,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $5,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARDS CENTER INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION EQUALITY: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINFINITE FAMILY: $3,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKQED INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPursuit Of Excellence: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOLA Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $1,000 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…Gordon E and Betty I …The Palo Alto Communi…The William & Flora H…The San Francisco Fou…Jacob L and Lillian H…Embarcadero Media Fou…Atkinson FoundationThe Intuit Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA34.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 90 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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