How much did EDWARD W SMITH JR FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of EDWARD W SMITH JR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

grace wayway village

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $65k
$10k–50k4 grants · $65k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

LIFE NET 4 FAMILIES$25,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY OUTREACH$20,000
4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA$10,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$10,000
HOPE SOUTH FLORIDA$5,000
TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK$5,000
MIAMI PROJECT TO CURE PARALYSIS$5,000
WOUNDED WARIOR PROJECT$5,000
MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$5,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$5,000
CURE PSP FOUNDATION$5,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FDN$5,000
MACULAR DEGENARATION ASSOCIATION$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$895k · 24 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +72% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$895k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%

+72%

Still filing today

33%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

GC
Gateway Community Outreach
3× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +47%
HA
Harvest Aviation
6× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +67%
HS
Hope South Florida
7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +18%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMIgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +72%
MD
Macular Degeneration Associationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +266%
SC
SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE
one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Victory At Sarasota Inc

We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…

Religion

Second Harvest Food Bank of

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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Suncoast Haven of Rest

To feed meals to all who come to us (the poor and homeless), deliver donated food to many organizations for distribution to the needy, and preach the gospel of jesus christ.

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Vision Outreach International Inc

Vision outreach sends short-term surgical mission teams to remote parts of the world perform global sight-restoration. this organization equips, enables, and trains mentors in sight-restoring skills and in christ-like qualities through…

Health

Samaritan Resource Center Inc

To break the cycle of homelessness and poverty by meeting the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless and those at risk of homelessness in central florida as a witness to the love of jesus christ.

Human Services

Florida Food Force Inc

The mission of florida food force is to fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facilitate, contribute and promote programs for hunger…

Food & Nutrition

Samaritan Health & Wellness Center

To serve the uninsured and under-insured in lee county in a christ-centered environment with the knowledge that jesus christ is the only healer.

Health

Farm Share Inc

Farm share, inc. is a 501(c)(3) florida not for profit food bank dedicated to fighting food insecurity in florida.

Food & Nutrition

Feed My People

To show god's love and compassion to all his people, but particularly his people in need.

Human Services

Miami Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to follow the Lord Jesus Christ's great commission by serving homeless and needy men, women and children. We provide emergency services and comprehensive residential programs to effect lasting change and empower people to…

Housing & Shelter

Hope Family Services Inc

The mission of hope is to promote safety, strength and well-being for those affected by domestic violence in manatee county, florida.

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Faith Food Pantry

Provide food security to families in lee and monroe counties

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Community Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$701,000Human Services$109,000Religion$65,000Public Safety & Disaster$30,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$10,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation EDWARD W SMITH JR 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.

2025

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Harvest Aviation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +67% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 651093830 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Harvest Aviation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Edward W Smith Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward W Smith Jr Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EDWARD W SMITH JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward W Smith Jr Foundation?

More from the funding graph

EDWARD W SMITH JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward W Smith Jr Foundation?

More from the funding graph