· Private foundation
The William H and Patricia M Smith 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $100,000 |
| OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC | $30,000 |
| MONTEREY SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $20,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO INC | $20,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| A BETTER CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| PACIFIC REP THEATRE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| REDWOOD COMMUNITY RADIO INC | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ORCHESTRA SALINAS (YOSAL) | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE SPORTS AND LEARNING COMPLEX | $10,000 |
| DE COLORES ARTS | $10,000 |
| GATHERING FOR WOMEN | $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 (FY21–25, $178k) 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- MCMONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +180%
- RCRANCHO CIELO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +50%
- HVHidden Valley Music Seminars4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- AOASSOCIATION OF THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -5%
- TSTHE SHAMROCK PET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
- FFAIRVOTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +52%
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.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
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.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
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…
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,…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. 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 39 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) — 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 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.
43 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. 43 of the 55 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 THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds Hidden Valley Music Seminars ↗
- Who funds GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds DE COLORES ARTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds The Carmel Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARMEL CARES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds CARMEL MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION ↗
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: Alexander F Victor Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The Frank and Judith Marshall Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 William H and Patricia M 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.
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