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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $278
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADEMY FOUNDATION$30,000
GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE$25,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$278
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVER NOW: $10k → 11%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $100k → 14%THE MIDDLE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $35k → 14%MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $15k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $25k → 14%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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$755k · 6 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$755k
$578k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CK
    Camp Kesem National
    3× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +9%
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +58%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -32%
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +201%
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
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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2
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
3
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
4
The American Film Institute

The american film institute ("afi") is a national institute providing leadership in screen education and the recognition and celebration of excellence in the art of film, television and digital media.

Arts & Culture
5
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
8
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
9
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Sag-aftra members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists.

Employment
10
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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11
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
12
National Cable Satellite Corporation

Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Motion Picture and Television Fund; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation: $350,000 · Arts & CultureAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences FoundationTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRE: $135,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GARRY MARSHALL THEATRETHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATIONNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INCTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN…Camp Kesem National: $160,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem Natio…MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $15,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE A…COVER NOW: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDDLE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $35,000 · OtherBLACK TIE DINNER INC: $20,000 · OtherGLAAD INC: $7,500 · OtherFeeding America: $30,000 · Food & NutritionGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,278 · AnimalsAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$745,000Civil Rights$250,000Human Services$195,000Other$62,500Food & Nutrition$30,000Philanthropy$30,000Animals$10,278Public Benefit$10,000

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 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
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Yeardley Smith Foundation AKA MARCHEZ VOUS YS FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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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