· Private foundation
Harold Tn Smith Memorial 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALEM ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,400 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM | $5,000 |
| LIFE BRIDGE | $5,000 |
| BUSTER BRUSH OLD GLORY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS FOREVER | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY SUPPER HOLIDAY DINNERS | $2,500 |
| HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES | $2,500 |
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE | $2,500 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $2,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETS | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +101%
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +121%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC3× · 2019–2021 · $18k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- NSNORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER COVID RESPONSEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RCROTARY CLUBone grant, 2018 · $7k
- SRSALEM ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.
We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. we are powering a just energy transition in the…
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
Teach of bangladesh is an exempt organization to support its counter part teach of bangladesh in bangladesh to launch a movemewnt of capable, committed and compassionate leaders in bangladesh who share an understanding of inequity and are…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The mission of children's friend and service (the organization) is to be the innovative leader in improving the well-being and healthy development of rhode island's most vulnerable young children. they accomplish this by providing flexible…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways for Childreninc and the most unlike its peers is Stephen M Ogrady Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 90 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN M OGRADY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING KITES INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rogers Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 organization Harold Tn Smith Memorial 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.