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The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$55k0%
FY20241$10k0%
FY20233$68k67%
FY20223$135k67%
FY20213$230k0%
FY20206$255k50%
FY20193$85k100%
FY20184$70k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$635kCivil Rights$268kHuman Services$215kPublic Benefit$120kRecreation & Sports$35kFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$20kAnimals$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation$350,00033%
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$250,00011%
Camp Kesem National$160,00031%
The Garry Marshall Theatre$135,00055%
The Barack Obama Foundation$110,00010%
Academy Foundation$50,00030%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$50,00020%
The Film Collaborative Inc$50,00011%
Feeding America$30,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$30,00010%
Black Tie Dinner Inc$20,00011%
Motion Picture and Television Fund$15,00010%
Best Friends Animal Society$10,27820%
Cover Now$10,00016%
America's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc$10,00010%
The Middle Project Inc$10,00012%
Glaad Inc$7,50010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation: $350,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $160,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Garry Marshall Theatre: $135,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFeeding America: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Tie Dinner Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMotion Picture and Television Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $10,278 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCover Now: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAmerica's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Middle Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGlaad Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION

How much does The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION give?
The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION reported 3 grants totaling $55,278 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Civil Rights (20%), Human Services (16%).
Who are The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation ($350k), Human Rights Campaign Foundation ($250k), Camp Kesem National ($160k).
Does The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION based?
The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION is based in DE.

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 18 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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