· Private foundation
Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $40,000 |
| CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC | $40,000 |
| RIDDLE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| CCSA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| NEUMANN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY | $20,000 |
| GREENER PARTNERS | $20,000 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHESTER | $15,000 |
| PROSPECT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDU FDN INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
124 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 18 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMRiddle Memorial Hospital4× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +76%
- CFCCSA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +18%
- CYCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC5× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- CACHILDREN AND ADULT DISABILITYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- ACA COMMUNITY CENTER ESTABLISHED BYone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CICADES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To create theatre of the highest professional quality in delaware and thereby enrich the vitality of the area through artistic programming, education, and community service.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
How this is measured
157 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 157 of the 212 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds Riddle Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds CCSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENCORE SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds UPPER DARBY ARTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SALUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VETERANS' NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ROSE VALLEY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maternity Care Coalition ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Upper Chichester Library ↗
- Who funds MINDING YOUR MIND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Wayne Art Center ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREENER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL LEGAL AID OF THE DIOCESE OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
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: Foundation for Delaware County · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Community's Foundation · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · Dl Saunders Lawrence Saunders Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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