· Private foundation
Christine and Lawrence Smith Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $427k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $200,000 |
| CENTRAL SCHWENKFELDER CHURCH | $125,000 |
| CENTER FOR LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT | $102,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MEADOWOOD RESIDENT ASSOCIATION SPRING APPEAL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTER FOR LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT4× · 2020–2025 · $714k · revenue +67% · 34% of their budget
- YOYMCA OF THE ROSES5× · 2020–2025 · $630k · revenue +102%
- RIRodale Institute4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +125%
Funded once
WHYY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +36%- WHWORCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- WVWORCESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Worcester historical museum is a unique organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting worcester's history in all time periods and subject areas.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature…
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
Preserve & promote Waynesboro history
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds SEBASTIAN RIDING ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WORCESTER ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christine and Lawrence Smith Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christine and Lawrence Smith Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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