· Private foundation
David Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| SMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATRE | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP | $15,000 |
| HOLDERNESS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROWING INC | $7,500 |
| TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| HARVARD MAGAZINE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD | $5,000 |
| THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| PATTISONS D R E A M ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| TRIDENT HEAD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP | $3,000 |
| HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LITCHFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
40 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%- RSRoper St Francis Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +3%
- HSHOLDERNESS SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- AEAUSTIN EXPLORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +150%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%- CTCROSSING THE WATERS INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pattison's Academy and the most unlike its peers is Smoky Mountain Community Theatre. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 78 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 CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Litchfield Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE I'ON TRUST ↗
- Who funds PATTISON'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds MEOW INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BANTAM CINEMA & ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FONTANA REGIONAL LIBRARY 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · The Joanna Foundation · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · John M Rivers Jr 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 David Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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