· Private foundation
The Roland R Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k27 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saddleback Church | $48,950 |
| Embry Riddle Aeronautical University | $34,475 |
| Friends of the Santa Ana Zoo | $24,475 |
| The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum | $24,475 |
| Pacific University Oregon | $10,000 |
| University of La Verne Men's Water Polo | $10,000 |
| Emilio Nares Foundation | $8,000 |
| University Of Puget Sound | $6,495 |
| Discovery Behavioral Helthcare | $6,490 |
| National Alliance for Mental Illness Washington | $6,490 |
| 4th Dimension Recovery Center | $5,000 |
| Save Mount Diablo | $5,000 |
| Bozeman Film Society | $5,000 |
| Logan City School District Foundation | $5,000 |
| AYSO Region 1422 | $4,895 |
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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $37k · revenue +69%
- EAEVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM2× · 2018–2019 · $27k · revenue +22%
- UOUniversity of La Verne Men's Water Polo2× · 2018–2019 · $20k
Funded once
- LHLAGUNA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue ×33 · 32% of their budget
- OAOmoiyari A Song Film by Kishi Bashione grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.
Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.
The living desert mission is to enhance desert conservation through preservation, education and appreciation.
The mission of the friends of the desert mountains is to preserve land, to support education, conservation and research in the coachella valley, and to act as the support organization for the santa rosa & san jacinto mountains national…
To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The mission of rancho los alamitos foundation is public education in the broadest possible sense. the foundation uses the historic site, its history and resources to explore the story of the site in relation to the region, state, nation…
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Laguna canyon foundation is dedicated to the conservation and ongoing protection of the south coast wilderness. we envision a thriving coastal ecosystem that serves as a source of inspiration, connection, and refuge for all.
The mission of the los angeles audubon society is to promote the study and protection of birds, other wildlife, and their habitats throughout the diverse landscapes of the los angeles area, and to stimulate popular interest in an access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenged Athletes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emilio Nares Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO ↗
- Who funds Emilio Nares Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE 4TH DIMENSION RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Logan City School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAVE MOUNT DIABLO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA HILLS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEWPORT BEACH ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH LAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds DENSHO ↗
- Who funds Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Roland R Smith Family 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum — 2% 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.