California · Private foundation
The Vo Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Vo Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $174k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $130k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $170k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $88k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $44k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $106k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $110k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science Is Elementary Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Basic Fund | $139,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bridge Meadows | $125,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Scholarmatch Inc | $70,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Donorschooseorg | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Teen Esteem | $66,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Open Heart Kitchen of Livermore Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Legacy Funds of Holy Names University | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Education Fund | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($305k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vo Smith Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Vo Smith Family Foundation
- How much does The Vo Smith Family Foundation give?
- The Vo Smith Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $174,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Vo Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Youth Development (20%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are The Vo Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Science Is Elementary Inc ($150k), The Basic Fund ($139k), Bridge Meadows ($125k).
- Does The Vo Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vo Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Vo Smith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is The Vo Smith Family Foundation based?
- The Vo Smith Family Foundation is based in CA.
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