· Private foundation
The Matthew & Tracy Smith 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC | $335,000 |
| PALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE | $129,700 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| GLAM4GOOD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RECREATION | $15,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| THE PALM BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| OXBRIDGE ACADEMY OF THE PALM BEACHES | $3,000 |
| ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2017–2021 · $311k · revenue +202% · 53% of their budget
- PBPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC2× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +204%
- WPWEST PALM BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2021 · $50k
- NENEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +107%
- KRKINGS RANSOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -24%
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.
These objectives are accomplished through educating our members and the community through meetings and programs and by maintaining and restoring the club's town beautification projects that have been gifted to the town over the years. the…
Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…
The mission of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches is to create and promote a favorable business climate in the Palm Beaches. This is accomplished by energetically representing the collective interests of business in the private…
To collect, preserve and make accessible to researchers and the general public artifacts and materials that help tell the story of the history of palm beach county, and to stimulate public appreciation for the rich history and cultural…
To promote professionalism in law enforcement. to provide labor & collective bargaining services, legal assistance, education, legistlative representation and death and disability benefits to palm beach county police officers.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To promote tourism in Palm Beach County, through the provision of accommodations, meals, hotels, and entrance fees for visiting travel agents.
The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches educates and informs the community's business, political and social interests and promotes a more active participation by all citizens in the democratic process by inviting students and the…
Dedicated to uniting physicians to serve the common interest of the profession, developing and maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards of the medical profession, advocating the interest of physicians and their patients,…
To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.
To provide financial assistance to the families of police officers in need.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 38 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 WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Recreation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Glam4Good Foundation ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINGS RANSOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Inc of Palm Beach County ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds TIPSY TURTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEART & SOUL CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds SEGUIN CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Mullen Family Foundation Inc · Sidney Kohl Family Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Matthew & Tracy Smith 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ywca of Palm Beach County — 72% of income from government
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc — 15% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 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.