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· Private foundation
The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$128k
Granted FY2025
47
Grants
8
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
bishopcathedral ladylady angelsroman archbishoparchbishop losangeles corporationcorporation sole
2020
archbishop losfrancis canadacanada flintridgeromancatholic churchbede venerablevenerable catholic
2021
buildinganniversarysaintorderprovincecatholic churchjesus
2022
barbaraportlandlmuappealchristpastoralretreat
2023
san josecelebrationadopt-a-studentraphaelgood shepherdjesuitjohns seminary
2024
dolores elementaryelementary parochialdinnersan josedeipastoralgala
2025
heartsmaterfaithjohnsan diegofrancissaint
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 47 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
- ST BEDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$15,000
- HOLY FAMILY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL$10,000
- JESUITS WEST$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
- HOSPITALLER FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA INC$2,000
- ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER$2,000
- SAINT ANDREWS ABBEY INC$2,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$947k · 79 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else
79 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
79
77
Total granted
$947k
$135k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+37%
+49%
Still filing today
37%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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
- SOSOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +24%
- KBKINO BORDER INITIATIVE8× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +106%
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $7k
- DMDOLORES MISSION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAROCHIALone grant, 2024 · $5k
- 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.
04Your field
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.
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Lourdes University
Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence.
Education
2
Saint Mary's College of California
An institution of higher education that grants associate, baccalaureate, and masters degrees in liberal arts, science, business administration and education, as well as a doctorate in education.
Education
3
Mary Health of the Sick Convalescent &
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…
Health
4
Catholic Charities of California
To promote the social welfare of california, with particular regard for the poor and marginalized through the twelve diocesan charities agencies.
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5
Faculty Physicians & Surgeons of Llusm
The employment of the clinical faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Faculty Physicians and Surgeons assists in the formation of Christian Physicians educated to serve as generalists and specialists providing competent…
Health
6
Little Sisters of the Poor
Little sisters of the poor care for the elderly poor in the spirit of humble service which was received from jeanne jugan. they welcome the elderly as would jesus christ himself and serve them with love and respect until death.
Health
7
Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra
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.
Human Services
8
Oakland Catholic Worker
The Organization offers transitional housing to Latin American immigrants. Its ministry is based on the practice of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised.
Human Services
9
Catholic Medical Center
The heart of Catholic Medical Center is to carry out Christ's healing ministry by offering health, healing, and hope to every individual who seeks our care.
Health
10
Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor
Exclusively charitable, religious and benevolent. The Home is a part of the international Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor, which was founded in France in 1839 and serves the elderly in 32 countries.
Religion
11
Southern California School of Theology
Theology Grad School Offering Interfaith and Ecumenical Degree Programs MDIV MA DMIN and PHD
Education
12
Catholic University of America
The catholic university of america is the national university of the catholic church in the united states.
Education
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 University of Portland. 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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/114
the rest of the field
12%
9,606/77,749
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.
05the grantee network
50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
38/50
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$943,901Human Services$52,700Education$42,250Religion$29,750Recreation & Sports$10,500Health$8,250Youth Development$3,500
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 ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT EDWARD RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARYS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELITE SPORTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES ↗
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.
Catholic Community FoundationCA50.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Timothy and Judith Smith Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Levecke Family Foundation · Richard Dunn Family Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER OF LOS ANGELES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 951652906 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GOOD SHEPHERD SHELTER OF LOS ANGELES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines