· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k42 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+15 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,030,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA | $2,030,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $1,740,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC | $1,000,000 |
| BIG PICTURE COMPANY INC | $975,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM | $800,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES | $520,000 |
| ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC | $515,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR | $479,990 |
| PORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL | $405,972 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $350,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $270,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $250,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
144 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $26M · revenue +63%- LFLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +100%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LAone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -51%
VENICE FAMILY CLINICone grant, 2023 · $220k · revenue +8%
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
188 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. 188 of the 498 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PORT OF LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds AIR SUPPORT ANGELS FOUNDATIONA CALIF NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR 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: 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
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 Smidt 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.
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation — 29% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Babcock Neighborhood School Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd — 0% 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.