· Private foundation
Arthur W & Audrey F Smith Foundatio
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIVE ISLAND TRAIL | $11,500 |
| LAKESIDE LUTERAN CHURCH | $7,920 |
| EMMETSBURG EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ISU EXT & OUTREACH OF PALO ALTO CTY | $5,680 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE PALO ALTO ARTS COUNCIL | $2,467 |
| VOCAL BOOSTERS OF EMMETSBURG | $1,977 |
| HORIZONS UNLIMITED | $1,549 |
| EMMETSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,150 |
| EMMETSBURG MAIN STREET COMM THEATRE | $1,100 |
| EMMETSBURG VFW POST 2295 | $1,000 |
| EMMETSBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- ECEMMETSBURG COMMUNITY CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $75k
- FIFIVE ISLAND BIKE TRAIL5× · 2017–2021 · $52k
- EEEMMETSBURG EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HUHORIZONS UNLIMITED OF PALO ALTO COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +32%
- ESEMMETSBURG SCHOOLS SCHOLARSHIP FDNone grant, 2017 · $8k
- PAPALO ALTO COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
7 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. 7 of the 44 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 EMMETSBURG EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds FIVE ISLAND TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS UNLIMITED OF PALO ALTO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VOCAL BOOSTERS OF EMMETSBURG ↗
- Who funds EMMETSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IOWA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
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: Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Arthur W & Audrey F Smith Foundatio 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.