· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of DONALD AND AMY SMITH JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BASILICA OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| WIDENER UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE ADAMS RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROOTS FOR BOOTS | $10,000 |
| THE AOPA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HANOVER AREA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $10,000 |
| GETTYSBURG COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS | $10,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $10,000 |
| THE HART CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOTHER SETON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UPPER ADAMS FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CPCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK5× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +59%
- NHNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2018–2020 · $80k · revenue +97%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- TATHE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -20%
- SSSHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $150k
- TFTOYS FOR TOTSone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Goodwill of southwestern pennsylvania is a human service agency and network of not-for-profit businesses whose mission is to strengthen communities, advance reuse and sustainability, and empower people to achieve their potential. see…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
Goodwill industries of the chesapeake, inc. prepares people to secure and retain employment and build successful, independent lives.
Worthwhile wear exists to reach and restore women that have been affected by human trafficking, both labor and sex trafficking, by providing them with comprehensive care, which includes housing, employment, counseling, and various other…
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
To partner with women facing homelessness to secure housing, achieve long- term stability, and chart new paths for their futures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Aid Society Southern Pa District - Church of the Brethren and the most unlike its peers is Wright Flight Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 43 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 THE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adams Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS FOR BOOTS ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH WELLNESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THRIVE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SOUTHERN PA DISTRICT - CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN ↗
- Who funds UNDEFEATED COURAGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANOVER PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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 Donald and Amy Smith Jr Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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