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The William H and Patricia M Smith Foundation at a glance

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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.

$343k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$867kFood & Nutrition$185kYouth Development$135kHousing & Shelter$90kEnvironment$71kHealth$70kHuman Services$66kEducation$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$100,000
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC$30,000
MONTEREY SYMPHONY$25,000
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
A BETTER CHICAGO$20,000
HARMONY AT HOME$20,000
RANCHO CIELO INC$20,000
PACIFIC REP THEATRE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
FOOD BANK OF MONTEREY COUNTY$10,000
LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE SPORTS AND LEARNING COMPLEX$10,000
REDWOOD COMMUNITY RADIO INC$10,000
YOUTH ORCHESTRA SALINAS (YOSAL)$10,000
YOU'RE GOING TO DIE$10,000
DE COLORES ARTS$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARMONY AT HOME: $20k → 12%A BETTER CHICAGO: $20k → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $20k → 14%WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $10k → 15%GATHERING FOR WOMEN: $20k → 12%GATHERING FOR WOMEN: $20k → 12%GATHERING FOR WOMEN: $20k → 12%GATHERING FOR WOMEN: $10k → 12%GATHERING FOR WOMEN: $10k → 12%THE CARMEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE CARMEL FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%THE CARMEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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

IL
MI
NY
IN
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 24 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+7%

Still filing today

79%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • MC
    MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +180%
  • RC
    RANCHO CIELO INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +68%
  • HV
    Hidden Valley Music Seminars
    4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -5%
  • TS
    THE SHAMROCK PET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • F
    FAIRVOTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +52%
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
Kqed Inc

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;…

Arts & Culture
2
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
5
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
6
The California Channel

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…

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7
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
8
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
12
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTSMONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureMONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INCHidden Valley Music Seminars: $85,000 · Arts & CultureHidden Valley Music SeminarsOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSICYOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH MUSIC MONTEREYDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIADETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDE COLORES ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+4 morePACIFIC REP THEATRE: $75,000 · OtherPACIFIC REP THEATREFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $70,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTYYOUTH ORCHESTRA SALINAS (YOSAL): $50,000 · OtherYOUTH ORCHESTRA SALINAS (YOSAL)LOAVES AND FISHES: $50,000 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHESWRCJ 909 FM DETROIT: $40,000 · OtherWRCJ 909 FM DETROITCARMEL CARES: $26,000 · OtherMOSAIC YOUTH THEATER: $25,000 · OtherTHE SHAMROCK PET FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $20,000 · Other+17 more: $169,000 · Other+17 moreGATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY: $80,000 · Human ServicesGATHERING FO…A Better Chicago: $40,000 · Human ServicesA Better Chi…The Carmel Foundation: $28,000 · Human ServicesThe Carmel F…HARMONY AT HOME: $20,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY AT H…WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE CHRI…RANCHO CIELO INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationGirls With Impact Inc: $8,000 · EducationThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy: $8,000 · EducationCHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW: $5,000 · EducationMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $41,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsALLIANCE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $15,000 · HealthKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $10,000 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 · HealthNAMI National: $10,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$665,000Other$545,000Human Services$178,000Youth Development$90,000Education$71,000Animals$71,000Health$45,000

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 budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC: $115,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHidden Valley Music Seminars: $85,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetGATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY: $80,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA Better Chicago: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY: $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDE COLORES ARTS: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetThe Carmel Foundation: $28,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCARMEL CARES: $26,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARMEL MUSIC SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHARMONY AT HOME: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanticle Farm: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE SPORTS AND LEARNING COMPLEX INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCity Slicker Farms: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EEL RIVER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 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.

Alexander F Victor Fo…Barnet Segal Charitab…Monterey Peninsula Fo…The Frank and Judith …The Community Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…
Alexander F Victor FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William H and Patricia M Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William H and Patricia M Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The William H and Patricia M Smith 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 55 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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