· Private foundation
Eg & Klara M Smith 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY LIGHTS MINISTRY | $75,000 |
| GLAD TIDINGS ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $20,000 |
| SCHWARZWALD UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $8,000 |
| SPRING VALLEY CHURCH OF GOD | $8,000 |
| ALLIANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| AUGUSTUS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| ATONEMENT LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CROSSNET MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE | $4,000 |
| GLORY TO GOD MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OHOPPORTUNITY HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +58%
- ECEXETER COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +133%
- HRHOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- LPLIFE PROMOTIONSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CACRIME ALERT OF BERKSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -32%
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.
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.
To share the good news of the gospel of jesus christ with unchurched young people i the central pennsylvania communities.
The organization's main purpose is to minister to children at a youth center by building relationship between the volunteer staff and youth. to provide a positive environment where the youth can meet jesus christ. to study the bible and…
The mission of bridge of hope national is to engage christian faith communities in ending family homelessness through neighboring relationships that demonstrate christ's love.
Easter seals eastern pa creates life-changing solutions for individuals with disablities and their families in their community by increasing independence, maximizing opportunities, minimizing barriers and enhancing quality of life.
To effect residents in the city of reading, pa, with the gospel of jesus christ through bible school, field trips, block parties, play, youth conferences, and outreaches to pre-teens, teens and young adults.
Teach life skills, find jobs, and give assistance where needed to people who are struggling with addictions by teaching principals from the word of god.
Provides assistance to single mothers with dependent children experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness in bucks and montgomery counties in pennsylvania.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
The mission of pa treatment & healing is to guide people on a path to change through quality counseling, treatment and education. this is accomplished by providing a comprehensive individual and family centered, values oriented treatment…
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…
Private religious education grades kindergarten through eighth grade
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds EXETER COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS IN THE PARKS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS WORK ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSNET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds Mira Foundation USA Inc ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE MINISTRIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Breidegam Family Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · Henry Janssen Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eg & Klara M Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eg & Klara M Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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