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The Roy W Smith Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$146kHealth$115kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$11kCommunity Improvement$10kArts & Culture$10kHousing & Shelter$5kEnvironment$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$678k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Psychiatric Physicians Alliance of Calif$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–19, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $2k → 10%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$488k · 11 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$488k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+38%

Still filing today

18%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AF
    AFI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $244k
  • PP
    PROXY PARENT FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $135k
  • TA
    TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
    3× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • SS
    Susan Samueli Integrative Health Cl
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • C
    CAPSTONE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • PP
    Psychiatric Physicians Alliance of
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

1
Temporary Shelter Inc

The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.

Housing & Shelter
2
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
3
Tarry House Inc

Tarry House operates group homes to provide shelter, food and,services to adults with severe mental disorders

Unclassified
4
Tasks Unlimited Inc

Tasks Unlimited, Inc. provides supported employment and housing for people in recovery from mental illness so that they can achieve a full life with the rights and responsibilities of adults in our society.

5
Serving People in Need Inc

Restoring Orange County families and individuals in crisis to permanent self-sufficiency through SPIN's proven, long-term case management and support services.

Human Services
6
People Services Inc

The Organization networks within the community as an advocate for people with disabilities, focusing on community access, consumer rights, fostering independence and economic self-sufficiency.

7
Project Access Inc

To provide treatment to people with mental health needs.

8
Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

9
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Cara Program

Build an inclusive economy by developing employment pathways to advance transformative individual and community success.

Employment
11
Psi Services Iii Inc

Provide clinical case management, foster care and adoption services under contracts with state agencies that are operated by these state agencies under the various federal award programs through the united states department of health and…

Human Services
12
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Engagement Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Warm Wishes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AFI FOUNDATION — $244,000 · OtherAFI FOUNDATIONPROXY PARENT FOUNDATION — $135,469 · OtherPROXY PARENT FOUNDATIONSusan Samueli Integrative Health Cl — $20,000 · OtherCAPSTONE — $20,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS — $20,000 · Other+18 more — $96,100 · Other+18 moreTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $52,000 · HealthTREATMENT…Project Access Inc — $5,200 · Community ImprovementOperation Warm Wishes — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $600 · PhilanthropyTHE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$535,569Health$52,000Community Improvement$10,200Human Services$5,500Philanthropy$1,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $52,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC — $5,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetProject Access Inc — $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Wishes — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetThe Media Institute — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INC
  • Who funds Project Access Inc
  • Who funds Operation Warm Wishes
  • Who funds The Media Institute
  • Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER
  • Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc
  • Who funds VETERAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds THE PUJOLS FAMILY 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.

Affordable Housing Access IncCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Affordable Housing Access Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Roy W Smith Charitable Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Roy W Smith Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Roy W Smith Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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