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Ellen V Smith Trust 9th Clause Sch9002

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$503kYouth Development$12kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Aidan O'Sullivan$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%University of Florida: $12k → 19%Sacred Heart University: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $9k → 7%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $97k → 14%Oxford College of Emory University: $5k → 12%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $6k → 7%Sofia Caito: $8k → 7%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $88k → 14%Sophie Alberino: $17k → 7%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $85k → 14%Sarah Burian: $10k → 7%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $60k → 14%Kate Maness: $10k → 7%SEE ATTACHED STATEMENT: $33k → 14%Grace Cummiskey: $8k → 7%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%Kendal Brown: $6k → 7%Jackson Hopkins: $17k → 7%Aidan O'Sullivan: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
GA
FL

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.

03Your 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.

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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.

3
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Saint Martin's University

Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…

Education
9
Northeastern University
Education
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Citrus County 4-H Association Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND — $9,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLANDTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOxford College of Emory University — $5,000 · OtherSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL UNIVERSITYSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $8,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY …SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $6,000 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGECITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROWN UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · Community ImprovementBANDA NOVA ALIANCA ST ANTONIO DE PAWTUCKET INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$98,000Education$34,000Youth Development$12,000Community Improvement$8,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANDA NOVA ALIANCA ST ANTONIO DE PAWTUCKET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ellen V Smith Trust 9th Clause Sch9002 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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