· Private foundation
Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PARK VIEW 19 SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| LEESBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| WONDERS AND WORRIES | $3,500 |
| SAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE | $3,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN (DONOR SERVICES TEAM) | $3,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $3,000 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $2,000 |
| YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +17%- YPYORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +31%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY MWOY- KEVIN PENAone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TUTURLANE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3k
Washington and Lee Universitygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +75%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Yorkminster Presbyterian Preschool Yorkminster Presbyterian Church. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 76 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 NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CANINE LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds Park View 19 Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LANAI CAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FORGING INDUSTRY EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIT SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds The fStop Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVAHEART RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Charles Henry Smith Sr 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.