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The Michael & Patricia Smith 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST BEDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| JESUITS WEST | $10,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE OF BRINDISI | $7,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL OF LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $4,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $4,000 |
| ST BEDE THE VENERABLE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,500 |
| SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF CARONDELET | $3,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL OF LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN EUDES PARISH | $2,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS ABBEY INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
83 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SMSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +2%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +17%
- KBKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- DMDOLORES MISSION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAROCHIALone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SJST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $7k
- SMSAINT MARYS ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To provide the highest level of long-term care in Southern California. The Servants of Mary and Ministers to the Sick are dedicated to helping in the personal life transition of the residents and their famiiles in a spirit and expression…
With love, respect and compassion, the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra provide essential services and transitional support to people experiencing the injustice of homelessness and extreme poverty.
The little sisters of the poor provide nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the organization is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in 1839 and serves the…
Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…
Promoting a deeper spiritual life among god's people.
Lourdes senior community, inspired by the gospel of jesus and sponsored by the dominican sisters of peace, provides a broad continuum of care for seniors and their families. all who administer at lourdes honor the uniqueness of each person…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
The Organization offers transitional housing to Latin American immigrants. Its ministry is based on the practice of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised.
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
To support maryvale.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 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) — 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 15% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 173 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 SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Elite Sports Academy ↗
- Who funds SAINT EDWARD RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MSJ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds L-ARCHE WAVECREST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
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: Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Timothy and Judith Smith Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Ccf-La Supporting Organization · The Levecke Family Foundation · The Fred and June Macmurray Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · The Brian D Stevens 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 Michael & Patricia 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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