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David D Smith Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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David D Smith Family Foundation Inc

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.

$679k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$316k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.0MPublic Benefit$1.6MHealth$833kPhilanthropy$800kHuman Services$490kArts & Culture$379kInternational$100kEnvironment$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $333k
  • $250k+1 grant · $316k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION$316,000
GBMC FOUNDATION$200,000
CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER$83,333
INSTITUTE FOR PRESERVATION AND PROGRESS$50,000
CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION$15,000
GILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE$10,000
LAND PRESERVATION TRUST$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOMS FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%MOMS FOR AMERICA: $100k → 14%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $290k → 19%WHEELS FOR CHANGE: $30k → 11%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 8 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$3.8M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+32%

Still filing today

88%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentPublic 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PB
    PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
  • CA
    CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $566k · revenue +123%
  • AT
    AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $475k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GA
    GERSTELL ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue +24%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • BC
    BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $290k · revenue +434% · 45% of their budget
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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3
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
4
Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…

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5
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
6
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
7
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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8
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
9
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
Civic Works Inc

Strengthening baltimore's communities through education, skills development and community service.

Education
11
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy

The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…

Education
12
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gbmc Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Upperco Volunteer Fire Company Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GERSTELL ACADEMY INC: $1,500,000 · EducationGERSTELL ACADEMY INCPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $1,450,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INCAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $475,000 · EducationAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY+1 more: $15,000 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHRO…PROJECT VERITAS: $275,000 · OtherPROJECT VERITASTURNING POINT USA INC: $250,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA I…INSTITUTE FOR PRESERVATION AND PROGRESS INC: $50,000 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATIO…+7 more: $87,500 · Other+7 moreGBMC FOUNDATION INC: $817,708 · HealthGBMC FOUNDAT…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $566,000 · Community ImprovementBELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $290,000 · Human ServicesMoms for America Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesWHEELS FOR CHANGE INC: $29,826 · Human ServicesCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $199,999 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $286,122 · Public Benefit
Education$3,440,000Other$1,262,500Health$822,708Community Improvement$566,000Human Services$519,826Philanthropy$399,999Public Benefit$286,122

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 budgetGERSTELL ACADEMY INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $1,450,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZENS ALLIANCE OF AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $566,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $475,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $290,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $286,122 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $275,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMoms for America Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $199,999 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELS FOR CHANGE INC: $29,826 over 1y, 50% of budgetUPPERCO VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $29,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAND PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetGILCHRIST HOSPICE CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Donors Trust IncT Rowe Price Program …William L & Victorine…The Leandro P Rizzuto…France-Merrick Founda…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Network for Good
Donors Trust IncVA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc · The Leandro P Rizzuto Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good

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 David D Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David D Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Land Preservation Trust Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation: 3% of income from government
  • Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to David D Smith Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to David D Smith Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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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