· Private foundation
The John H & Cynthia Lee Smet 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $809k
- $250k+1 grant · $459k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $459,000 |
| USOPF | $167,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER | $155,390 |
| AMERICAN MARTYRS CHURCH | $101,533 |
| THE MISSION TOGETHER CHURCH | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $58,621 |
| PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT | $51,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS | $25,000 |
| SAINT SEBASTIAN SPORTS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| VISTAMAR SCHOOL | $22,575 |
| ST PIUS X - ST MATTHIAS ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| STUDENTS RUN AMERICA DBA STUDENTS RUN LA | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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 SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $743k · revenue +22%
- PNPUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G6× · 2019–2024 · $488k · revenue +41%
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $165k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +160%- TPTHE PLAY EQUITY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +70%
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 63 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 OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds VISTAMAR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds Da Vinci Schools ↗
- Who funds LEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Association of Latino Leaders Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION SCHOLAS OCCURRENTES - USA ↗
- Who funds REACH ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ↗
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 · Pipkin Charitable Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Specialty Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers 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 The John H & Cynthia Lee Smet 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.
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.