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The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation at a glance

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The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$49kYouth Development$26kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$7kAnimals$6kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$308k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK MOZAMBIQUE$5,500
IDAHO YOUTH RANCH$5,000
RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION$2,081
LEARNING LAB$1,500
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
THE CABIN$805
Individual grant recipient$271
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $4k → 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $3k → 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%WOMENS AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 8%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
CT
CA
CO
HI
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 23 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

$105k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+54%

Still filing today

65%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RS
    RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +32%
  • WA
    Women's and Children's Alliance
    7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • LL
    LEARNING LAB INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BOISE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • SI
    SAGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOISEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +133%
  • PL
    PAYETTE LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue ×39
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
2
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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3
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
4
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
5
Idaho Education Association

The idaho education association advocates for the professional and personal well-being of its members and the vision of excellence in the public education.

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6
Idaho Zoological Society Inc

The fozb is a membership organization that supports zoo boise in the areas of animal acquisition, capital improvement projects, fundraising activities, volunteer opportunities, and educational programs. the goals of each of these…

Animals
7
Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands

To preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.

Environment
8
Idaho Law Foundation Inc

The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…

—
9
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

—
10
Idaho Science & Technology Charter

Public Education.

Education
11
Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc

Idaho legal aid services inc is a statewide nonprofit law firm dedicated to providing equal access for low-income people through quality advocacy and education

Crime & Legal
12
Brave Hearts Idaho
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION INC: $24,970 · OtherBISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION INCLEARNING LAB INC: $5,550 · OtherLEARNING LAB INCGORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK MOZAMBIQUE: $5,500 · OtherGORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK MOZAMBIQUETHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $3,000 · OtherTHE CABIN: $2,097 · Other+33 more: $16,548 · Other+33 moreIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INCWomen's and Children's Alliance: $11,500 · Human ServicesWomen's and Children's AllianceRICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC: $12,770 · PhilanthropyRICHARD SABA…Idaho Humane Society Inc: $4,500 · AnimalsBronco Athletic Association Inc: $3,527 · Recreation & SportsIDAHO YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $250 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC: $250 · Recreation & SportsIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $1,775 · Arts & CultureBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $700 · Arts & CultureFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc: $410 · Arts & CultureSAGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOISE: $1,000 · EducationBoise State University Foundation Inc: $450 · Education
Other$57,665Human Services$36,500Philanthropy$12,770Animals$4,500Recreation & Sports$4,027Arts & Culture$2,885Education$1,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP KELLY FOUNDATION INC: $24,970 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC: $12,770 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING LAB INC: $5,550 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBronco Athletic Association Inc: $3,527 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $1,775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC: $1,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOISE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYETTE LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $508 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeilani Farm Sanctuary: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSELWAY-BITTERROOT FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoise State University Foundation Inc: $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Idaho Public Television Inc: $410 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARBELLS FOR BOOBS: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Idaho Community Found…Idaho Power Foundatio…Claude R & Ethel B Wh…St Luke's Health Syst…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Harad Family Foundati…The Julius C Jeker Fo…Simplot Company Found…Laura Moore Cunningha…Sylvan Creek Foundati…The Bews FoundationPercival Stern Founda…
Idaho Community Foundation IncID33.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Sylvan Creek Foundation Inc · The Bews Foundation · Percival Stern Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Thomas M and Carol F Smith Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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