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David Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$247kHealth$129kArts & Culture$105kHuman Services$29kReligion$20kEnvironment$14kAnimals$14kYouth Development$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$35,000
SMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATRE$20,000
CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP$15,000
ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$10,000
HOLDERNESS SCHOOL$10,000
COMMUNITY ROWING INC$7,500
PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD$5,000
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIO$5,000
TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION$5,000
HARVARD MAGAZINE INCORPORATED$5,000
TRIDENT HEAD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP$3,000
PATTISONS D R E A M ACADEMY$3,000
CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$3,000
MIDDLETON PLACE FOUNDATION$2,500
LITCHFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC$2,500
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MULTICULTURAL REFUGEE COALITION: $1k → 10%PROJECT SAGE INC: $5k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $3k → 9%CARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC: $1k → 9%LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 9%LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 9%LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 9%LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 9%LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
NY
MA
SD
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CA
WV
MD
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$527k · 40 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
32

Total granted

$527k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

83%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • RS
    Roper St Francis Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +3%
  • HS
    HOLDERNESS SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SAGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • AE
    AUSTIN EXPLORE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +150%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
4
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
5
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
6
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pattison's Academy; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
46/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP: $84,000 · EducationCENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIPJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOOLTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONLitchfield Montessori School Inc: $10,000 · EducationPATTISON'S ACADEMY: $8,000 · Education+8 more: $26,400 · Education+8 moreHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $15,500 · OtherHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATIO…BENEDICTINE CONGREGATION REGINA LAUDIS OF THE STRICT OBSERVANCE IN: $15,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE CONGREGATION REGI…TRIDENT HEAD INJURY SUPPORT GROUP: $10,000 · OtherTRIDENT HEAD INJURY SUPPORT G…JOYOUS HEART NETWORK CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherJOYOUS HEART NETWORK CORPORAT…PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD: $10,000 · OtherPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PA…COMMUNITY ROWING INC: $7,500 · OtherBRYSON CITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,000 · OtherNEED MORE OUTDOORS: $5,500 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $7,000 · Other+28 more: $71,700 · Other+28 moreRoper St Francis Foundation: $45,000 · HealthRoper St Francis Fo…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $25,100 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY …American Heart Association Inc: $14,750 · HealthAmerican Heart Asso…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $11,700 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX F…GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthSMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATRE: $31,000 · Arts & CultureSMOKY MOUNTAI…CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11,600 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON SY…THE I'ON TRUST: $9,500 · Arts & CultureTHE I'ON TRUS…Middleton Place Foundation: $8,000 · Arts & CultureMiddleton Pla…HARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHARVARD MAGAZ…SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTI…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT SAGE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN OF GREATER WTBY INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $1,250 · Human ServicesCARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $5,000 · AnimalsMEOW INC: $4,500 · AnimalsPET HELPERS INC: $2,000 · AnimalsPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $1,000 · AnimalsSOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,000 · AnimalsCOMPASSION WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 · AnimalsAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $13,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$238,400Other$158,200Health$104,550Arts & Culture$73,100Human Services$16,750Animals$14,000Recreation & Sports$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR FURNITURE CRAFTSMANSHIP: $84,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMOKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATRE: $31,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $25,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $11,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLitchfield Montessori School Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE I'ON TRUST: $9,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPATTISON'S ACADEMY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBANTAM CINEMA & ARTS CENTER INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEOW INC: $4,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFONTANA REGIONAL LIBRARY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $3,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITCHFIELD COUNTY CREATING HOPE COR: $2,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetSAFE HAVEN OF GREATER WTBY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET HELPERS INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AUSTIN AREA: $1,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIVE HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Connecticut Commu…Coastal Community Fou…Northwest Connecticut…Thomaston Savings Ban…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Seherr-Thoss Charitab…John Winthrop Charita…The Joanna FoundationNorthwest Community B…Dominion Energy Chari…Atlantic Services of …John M Rivers Jr Foun…
The Connecticut Community FoundationCT23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to David Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable Foundation 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 78 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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