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Donald and Amy Smith Jr 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.

$345k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$345k14%
FY202421$210k24%
FY202318$200k39%
FY20224$415k75%
FY202110$190k50%
FY20209$165k78%
FY20195$90k60%
FY201810$105k50%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$400kHuman Services$290kEducation$285kFood & Nutrition$200kRecreation & Sports$155kArts & Culture$150kHousing & Shelter$65kEmployment$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Adams County Historical Society$150,00016%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$120,00050%
New Hope Ministries Inc$80,00031%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$65,00050%
South Central Community Action Programs Inc$55,00050%
Adams Rescue Mission Inc$55,00041%
Hanover Area Council of Churches$50,0005n/a
Hart Center$40,00041%
Mother Seton School Inc$40,0004n/a
The Aopa Foundation Inc$40,00040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($755k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Adams County Historical Society: $150,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Ministries Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Central Community Action Programs Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAdams Rescue Mission Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHart Center: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Aopa Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWidener University: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg Community Soup Kitchen: $30,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWright Flight Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoots for Boots: $30,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMikeroweworks Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIdaho Youth Ranch Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Flight East: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSpecial Olympics Pennsylvania Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOlivia's House - a Grief and Loss Center for Children: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTruenorth Wellness Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThrive Ministry Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTrue North Youth Program: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBuilding Homes for Heroes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of Hanover Pennsylvania: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Aid Society Southern Pa District - Church of the Brethren: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Rice Family FoundationPA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rice Family Foundation · Adams County Community Foundation Inc · York County Community Foundation · The Arlene Utz Hollinger Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Robert C Hoffman Tw Charitable · United Way of York County · Point of View Foundation · Conewago Enterprises Charitable Foundation · Memorial Health Fund · Members 1st Charitable 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.

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How do I get to Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Donald and Amy Smith Jr 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.

About Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc

How much does Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc give?
Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Human Services (16%), Education (16%).
Who are Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Adams County Historical Society ($150k), Central Pennsylvania Food Bank ($120k), New Hope Ministries Inc ($80k).
Does Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rice Family Foundation, Adams County Community Foundation Inc, York County Community Foundation.
Where is Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc based?
Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 43 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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