· Private foundation
The John H & Cynthia Lee Smet 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $798k
- $250k+1 grant · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $334,000 |
| USOPF | $167,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER | $155,717 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE | $125,000 |
| THE MISSION TOGETHER CHURCH | $100,000 |
| ST MARIA GORETTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| VISTAMAR SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| REACH ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN | $30,000 |
| WISEBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SAINT SEBASTIAN SPORTS PROJECT | $30,000 |
| ST ANNE PARISH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $20,235 |
| CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION OF LATINO LEADERS INC | $10,980 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $899k · revenue +22%
- PNPUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G7× · 2019–2025 · $538k · revenue +41%
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
From The Heart Productionsone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%- SPST PIUS X - ST MATTHIAS ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $18k
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISTAMAR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WISEBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Association of Latino Leaders Inc ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds LEARNING RIGHTS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Da Vinci Schools ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds FUNDACION SCHOLAS OCCURRENTES - USA ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John H & Cynthia Lee Smet Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John H & Cynthia Lee Smet Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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