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The Smidt Foundation

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.

$21M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
145
Grants FY2024
142
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000,000
Organizations funded a year
51 to 148
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
32
Total assets, FY2024
$270M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations The Smidt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving141$18M47%
FY2023142$18M45%
FY2022148$17M40%
FY2021113$12M52%
FY2020110$12M66%
FY201982$7.5M60%
FY201889$11M72%
FY201751$1.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$29MPhilanthropy$25MEducation$22MHousing & Shelter$7.6MCivil Rights$7.0MArts & Culture$6.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$5.3MHuman Services$5.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
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CO
NE
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 223 grantees
All grantees of The Smidt Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$26,060,00080%
La Family Housing Corporation$5,800,00063%
Anti-Defamation League$5,725,00054%
Holocaust Museum La$4,105,400317%
The Big Picture Company$3,740,700412%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$2,050,00020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$2,015,00080%
Portland Art Museum$1,600,00081%
Port of Los Angeles High School$1,586,40753%
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles$1,550,00031%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor$1,335,32743%
United States Veterans Initiative$1,310,00070%
Food Forward Inc$1,070,00080%
Public Counsel$1,020,00081%
Innercity Struggle$939,00085%
United Way Inc$925,00041%
Martin Luther King Jr Community Health Foundation$740,00053%
Los Angeles Police Foundation$730,00084%
Los Angeles Urban League$729,00055%
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans$710,000711%
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc$695,00052%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment$695,00052%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$637,72085%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$635,00051%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools$635,00051%
Israel Policy Forum Inc$630,00027%
Air Support Angels Foundationa Calif Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation$601,260291%
Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc$579,674511%
Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County$575,000529%
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools$560,00032%
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation$515,00043%
City Year Inc$505,00050%
New America Foundation$500,00040%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$445,00040%
Downtown Women's Center$425,00041%
The Mission Continues$400,00042%
Coaching Corps$400,00043%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$355,00041%
Skillsusa Foundation Inc$330,00034%
Da Vinci Schools Fund$306,254214%
The Rape Foundation$267,50062%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$250,00010%
Friends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic$240,00074%
Chp 11-99 Foundation$235,00080%
Baby2baby$222,50080%
Venice Family Clinic$220,00010%
Coro Southern California Inc$218,50044%
Bhpoa Benevolent Fund$206,00085%
Equal Justice Initiative$205,00050%
Ccf Community Initiatives Fund$200,00011%
Reut USA$200,00015%
Miracles for Kids Inc$200,00023%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$200,00010%
CalMatters$200,00012%
Angel Flight West Inc$200,00081%
Flintridge Center$191,69026%
Glendale Unified School District$187,9363n/a
Chrysalis Center$185,00040%
South Bay Workforce Investment Board Inc$182,86011%
Los Angeles Education Corps Charter School$175,99612%
Ventura County Office of Education$173,6073n/a
Food Share Inc$170,00030%
Bet Tzedek$160,00011%
Museum Associates$155,00030%
Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc$154,00040%
The David Foster Foundation$150,00013%
Southern California Grantmakers$150,00031%
Harvest Hope Food Bank$145,00030%
Oakland Schools$140,5003n/a
Cherry Creek Schools Foundation$140,00026%
The Commemorative Air Force$125,00040%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$115,00050%
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties$115,00030%
International Medical Corps$115,00080%
Jeffco Education Support Professionals Association$105,000216%
Propel America$100,00012%
Sema Memorial Scholarship Fund$100,000118%
Evergreen School District Foundation 114$100,000115%
Inland Southern California 211$100,00020%
Young Mens Christian Association of Southeast Ventura County$100,00021%
Joliet Township High School District 204$100,0001n/a
Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$100,00015%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$85,00030%
Center for Asian Americans United for Self-Empowerment Inc$85,00043%
Inland Southern California United Way$80,00011%
Northside Independent School District$80,0003n/a
Jordan Education Foundation$77,50032%
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association$75,00030%
Jeffco Public Schools$75,0002n/a
City of Chickasaw Board of Education$73,0004n/a
Teach Democracy$72,50031%
South Kitsap School District$70,0001n/a
Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District$70,0001n/a
Clark County School District$70,0001n/a
Chrysalis$70,0002n/a
Escambia County Bord of Education$70,0001n/a
Venice Family Clinic Foundation$65,00021%
McLeod Health Foundation$65,00050%
United States Fund for Unicef$60,00010%
Peaceplayers International$60,00031%
Allies for Every Child Inc$60,00080%
Bridge Housing Corporation$58,40010%
Freedom Area School District$57,5004n/a
Beverly Hills Firemen's Relief Fund$53,500812%
Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc$50,00023%
The Los Angeles Free Clinic$50,00010%
The School Board of Broward County$50,0001n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$50,00010%
Carefirst Carolina Foundation$50,000115%
Criminal Justice Reform Foundation$50,00010%
Texas School for the Deaf$50,0001n/a
Amarillo Independent School Distric$50,0001n/a
Junior Achievement of Southern California Inc$50,00011%
Adventist Development & Relief Agency International$50,00020%
Care for Special Needs Children Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Grants Pass School District 7$50,0001n/a
Dauphin County Technical School$49,9803n/a
School District of Seymour$48,0003n/a
Lewis-Palmer School District #38$45,0002n/a
Casa of Los Angeles$42,00050%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$40,00030%
Ronan School District 30$39,8602n/a
Hancock Public Schools$35,0001n/a
West Contra Costa Unified School District$35,0001n/a
Soquel High School$35,0001n/a
Kaukauna Area School District$35,0001n/a
Twin Lakes School Corporation$35,0001n/a
Folsom-Cordova Unified School District$35,0001n/a
Elkhorn Area School District$35,0001n/a
Oxnard Union High School District$35,0001n/a
Los Angeles Unified School District Education Foundation$35,00013%
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$35,00010%
Bucks County Technical High School$35,0001n/a
Olympus Development Foundation Inc$35,000114%
Visalia Unified School District$35,0001n/a
Katy Isd$35,0001n/a
Moore County Schools$35,0001n/a
Educators for Quality Alternatives Inc$35,00011%
Avoyelles Parish School Board$35,0001n/a
Hudson Area Schools$35,0001n/a
Kalispell Public Schools$35,0001n/a
Arrowhead High School$35,0001n/a
Oneida Herkimer Madison Boces$35,0001n/a
Fairbanks North Star Borough School$35,0001n/a
School District of Hillsborough County$35,0001n/a
Washington County Public Schools$35,0001n/a
Alexander County Schools$35,0001n/a
New Village Charter School Inc$34,00030%
The Everychild Foundation$30,00051%
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc$30,00011%
Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation$30,00063%
The Learning Centers at Fairplex$26,00032%
Georgetown University$25,00010%
Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Fdn$25,00016%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles$25,00040%
Discovery Science Center of Los Angeles$23,00021%
Japanese American National Museum$20,00020%
Momentum Agencies$20,00030%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$20,00020%
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault$20,00030%
Big Sunday$20,00011%
Stars and Stripes Children's Foundation$20,00014%
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado$18,00011%
On Ramps Dba New Orleans Technical Education Provider$17,20032%
Association for Career & Technical Education (Acte)$15,00010%
Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging$15,00010%
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards$15,00010%
Jvs Socal$12,00010%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$10,00010%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$10,00010%
Alliance for Children's Rights$10,00010%
Farmlink Project$10,00010%
Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00010%
Chinatown Service Center$10,00010%
Southeast Community Development Corporation$10,00011%
Phase One Foundation$10,00011%
The Lost Hills Sheriffs Foundation$10,0001n/a
Mobility Service Dogs - West Coast Project$10,00012%
Alzheimer's Family Services Center$10,00010%
Santa Barbara Unified School District$10,0001n/a
Earth League International$10,00011%
American Heart Association Inc$10,00010%
Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation$10,00012%
Leukemia Research Foundation$10,0001n/a
Ivy Academy Inc$7,50010%
National Academy of Public Administration$7,50030%
Springfield Education Foundation$7,50012%
North Atlantic States Carpenters Training Fund$7,50010%
Hamilton County Schools Tn Department of Education$7,5001n/a
Funders Together to End Homelessnes$7,50050%
Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation$7,50010%
Synergy Academies$7,45010%
Greater Los Angeles Area Council Boy Scouts of America$5,00010%
Leos Pride Foundation$5,00013%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$5,00010%
Kern High School District Educational Foundation$5,00013%
The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd$5,00010%
New York School of Interior Design$5,00010%
Youth Empowerment Project$5,00010%
Weber County School District Foundation$5,00010%
Babcock Neighborhood School Inc$5,00010%
Northern Arizona University Foundation$5,00010%
California State University Foundation$5,00010%
Purdue Research Foundation$5,00010%
Classic Car Restoration Foundation$5,0001n/a
Hunter Seven Foundation$5,00011%
Western Educational Corporation$5,00010%
Murray County Family Circle Inc$5,00013%
Alamance-Burlington Schools$5,0001n/a
Mayhew$5,00010%
Seniors First Inc$5,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,00010%
Aia Foundation$5,00011%
Sweet Grass Technical Institute$5,00015%
Wicomico County Board of Education$4,9951n/a
Children Mending Hearts Inc$2,50011%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$2,00010%
Caddo Career & Technology Center Foundation$1,00012%
Thomasville City Schools - Ga$1,0001n/a
Vahagn Setian Charitable Foundation$1,00015%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,00010%
Culver City Police Foundation$1,0001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 262 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Smidt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 172 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $26,060,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLa Family Housing Corporation: $5,800,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,725,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHolocaust Museum La: $4,105,400 over 3y, 17% of budgetThe Big Picture Company: $3,740,700 over 4y, 12% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $2,050,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,015,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $1,600,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetPort of Los Angeles High School: $1,586,407 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $1,550,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Los Angeles Harbor: $1,335,327 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetUnited States Veterans Initiative: $1,310,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFood Forward Inc: $1,070,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPublic Counsel: $1,020,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetInnercity Struggle: $939,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $925,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMartin Luther King Jr Community Health Foundation: $740,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLos Angeles Police Foundation: $730,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetLos Angeles Urban League: $729,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetNational Coalition for Homeless Veterans: $710,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetLos Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc: $695,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment: $695,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $637,720 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $635,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPartnership for Los Angeles Schools: $635,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIsrael Policy Forum Inc: $630,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetAir Support Angels Foundationa Calif Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation: $601,260 over 2y, 91% of budgetAlliance for Community Empowerment Inc: $579,674 over 5y, 11% of budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $575,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetAlliance for College-Ready Public Schools: $560,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAlliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation: $515,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCity Year Inc: $505,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew America Foundation: $500,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $445,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Women's Center: $425,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Mission Continues: $400,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCoaching Corps: $400,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California: $355,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSkillsusa Foundation Inc: $330,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetDa Vinci Schools Fund: $306,254 over 2y, 14% of budgetThe Rape Foundation: $267,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Los Angeles Free Clinic: $240,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetChp 11-99 Foundation: $235,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBaby2baby: $222,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVenice Family Clinic: $220,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoro Southern California Inc: $218,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetBhpoa Benevolent Fund: $206,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 172.

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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.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA50.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The California Wellness Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Smidt Foundation

How much does The Smidt Foundation give?
The Smidt Foundation reported 145 grants totaling $21,114,495 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 148 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Smidt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (18%).
Who are The Smidt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($26M), La Family Housing Corporation ($5.8M), Anti-Defamation League ($5.7M).
Does The Smidt Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Smidt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Smidt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Weingart Foundation, California Community Foundation.
Where is The Smidt Foundation based?
The Smidt Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 498 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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