· Private foundation
The Smith Tieken 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY ST MARTIN COLLEGE PREP | $215,000 |
| CITY HOPE | $210,000 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $210,000 |
| BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT | $191,200 |
| AGEOPTIONS INC | $180,000 |
| L'ARCHE CHICAGO | $170,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE | $160,000 |
| WILLOW HOUSE | $118,000 |
| HUNKAPI | $115,000 |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | $110,000 |
| ARIS FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZO | $45,000 |
| UNITED FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO COLLEGE OF PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Smith Tieken Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $364k · revenue +31%
- TATHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $335k · revenue +50%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $258k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FAFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONAone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%
- RRRandy's Rescue Ranchone grant, 2023 · $10k
- KYKARMA YOGA PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arizona Animal Welfare League and the most unlike its peers is Feed Hope International Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
- Who funds AGEOPTIONS INC (FKA SUBURBAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING) ↗
- Who funds L'ARCHE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ARIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE TRAIN ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FEED HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Randy's Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Smith Tieken 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.
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