· Private foundation
Gordon V and Helen C 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 $10k11 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SCH OF ST JUDE | $67,530 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON | $15,000 |
| BETHESDA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,450 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| TUKUTANA | $2,500 |
| PITTSBURGH KIDS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AETAS MIRABILIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE FALLS CHURCH ANGLICAN | $600 |
| BRAWS | $400 |
| RIDE ALLEGHENY | $400 |
| WETA | $200 |
| ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY | $150 |
| MULBERRY SCHOOL | $91 |
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +33% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OWOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +53%
- CSCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +60%
- PKPITTSBURGH KIDS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $400k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDEone grant, 2020 · $6k
- FOFriends of Barnabas Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Oliverian is a non-profit, alternative, college-prep boarding school for adolescents who have not thrived in traditional settings. we fill the gap between traditional and therapeutic schools, providing the right mix of support and guided…
To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds RIVENDELL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Barnabas Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds A PURPOSEFUL DAY ↗
- Who funds AETAS MIRABILIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds OAKCREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CABIN JOHN PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
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: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gordon V and Helen C Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon V and Helen C Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Writers Center: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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