· Private foundation
The Timothy and Judith Smith 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Timothy and Judith Smith Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Timothy and Judith Smith Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $273k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE - | $50,000 |
| ST BEDE THE VENERABLE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| BISHOP O'DOWD HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE - | $20,000 |
| VERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DOLORES MISSION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PAROCHIAL | $10,000 |
| THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES A CO | $10,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SOVEREIGN ORDER OF MALTA-WESTERN ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE OF BRINDISI | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN BOSCO HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $5,000 |
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $309k · revenue +39%
- SMSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +2%
- HSHILLSIDE SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SCSANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY Global Women's Leadershipone grant, 2017 · $30k
- UWUSA WEST PROVINCE SOCIETY OF JESUS - JESUITS WESTone grant, 2022 · $15k
- CCCORPUS CHRISTI CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
See schedule o.mount saint mary's university offers a dynamic learning experience in liberal arts & sciences to a diverse student body. as a catholic university founded primarily for women, we are dedicated to providing superior education…
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Cardinal stritch university is a comprehensive, coeducational, institution offering educational programs leading to associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines provided through its three colleges:…
The catholic schools foundation changes lives by providing families with demonstrated financial need an opportunity to give thier sons and daughters a quality education, focused on christian values and character formation at catholic…
To provide for women the best undergraduate residential liberal arts education along with select graduate programs, in the catholic and benedictine traditions. the college fosters integrated learning, exceptional leadership for change and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Reed Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 54 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 MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA WESTERN ASSOCIATION-USA ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds PARENTS FOR CARPENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE WUNDERGLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STILLPOINT RESOURCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SONG FOR CHARLIE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
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: Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Michael & Patricia Smith Foundation · California Community Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Carl and Henrietta Herrmann Family Foundation · Ccf-La Supporting Organization · Sempra Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Timothy and Judith Smith 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.
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.