· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $4,000 |
| ST BEDE THE VENERABLE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,500 |
| SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF CARONDELET | $3,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL OF LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE | $2,500 |
| DOLORES MISSION | $2,500 |
| JESUITS WEST | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN EUDES PARISH | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN OF GOD RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 173 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Portland: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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