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Htc Cottee Josephine & Evelyn Smith Foundatio at a glance

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Htc Cottee Josephine & Evelyn Smith Foundatio

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.

$735k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$2.9MArts & Culture$419kEducation$419kReligion$419k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $641k
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENNSYLVANIA SPCA$80,000
WOMEN'S ANIMAL CENTER$76,000
FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS$75,000
WHYY$75,000
SAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH$75,000
LUDINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY$75,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA$75,000
PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$60,000
BUCKS COUNTY SPCA$50,000
ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM BANK$30,000
ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC$29,000
LAST CHANCE RANCH$20,000
MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA: $79k → 7%SAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $79k → 10%WHYY - PUBLIC TELEVISION: $79k → 22%Animal Welfare Association NJ: $49k → 12%Montgomery County SPCA: $77k → 7%LUDINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $79k → 10%WHYY - PUBLIC TELEVISION: $77k → 22%MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA: $75k → 7%Ludington Public Library: $77k → 10%WHYY: $75k → 22%FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $79k → 6%MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA: $74k → 7%Saint John Neumann Catholic Church: $77k → 10%WHYY: $74k → 22%Francisvale Home for Smaller Animals: $77k → 6%MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA: $63k → 7%LUDINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $75k → 10%WHYY: $63k → 22%FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $75k → 6%MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA: $52k → 7%SAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $75k → 10%WHYY: $52k → 22%FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $74k → 6%WOMEN'S ANIMAL CENTER: $79k → 6%LUDINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $74k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA SPCA: $100k → 22%FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $63k → 6%WOMEN'S ANIMAL CENTER: $79k → 6%SAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $74k → 10%Pennsylvania SPCA: $88k → 22%FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $52k → 6%Women's Animal Center: $77k → 6%SAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $63k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA SPCA: $80k → 22%WOMEN'S ANIMAL CENTER: $76k → 6%LUDINGTON LIBRARY: $63k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA SPCA: $79k → 22%WOMEN'S ANIMAL CENTER: $63k → 6%LUDINGTON LIBRARY: $52k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA SPCA: $74k → 22%WOMEN'S ANIMAL CENTER: $52k → 6%SAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $52k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA SPCA: $66k → 22%Providence Animal Center: $45k → 10%PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $98k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $74k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $60k → 22%Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society: $55k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 19 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

$4.1M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

68%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
    6× · 2020–2025 · $487k · revenue +51%
  • WH
    WOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $425k · revenue +37%
  • LL
    LUDINGTON LIBRARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $419k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AC
    ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM
    one grant, 2025 · $30k · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
2
Franklin County Humane Society

Temporary shelter & adoption of homeless pets.

Animals
3
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
4
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
5
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
6
Humane Society of Cambria County

Animal care and adoption

Animals
7
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
8
The Maryland Spca Inc

To improve the lives of pets and people in the community; to provide and promote education concerning the proper care of animals; to provide medical services, socialization, and enrichment to animals; (see schedule o for continuation)to…

Animals
9
Berkeley County Spca

Care of abandoned and abused animals including spay, neuter, food, shots, lodging, care, pickup and adoption.

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10
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals
11
South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter Inc

Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.

Animals
12
Humane Association of Warren County -Ohio

To partner with the community to eliminate and prevent cruelty, neglect and homelessness, in order to achieve humane care and quality of life for all companion animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Care and Control Team; the most unlike its peers is Whyy 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $487,315 · AnimalsPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $425,180 · AnimalsWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INCFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $419,180 · AnimalsFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALSMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $419,180 · AnimalsMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $372,500 · AnimalsPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETYAnimal Welfare Association Inc: $148,459 · AnimalsAnimal Welfare Association IncBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100,000 · Animals+4 more: $219,975 · Animals+4 moreSAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $419,180 · OtherSAINT JOHN NEUMANN CATHO…WHYY - PUBLIC TELEVISION: $155,315 · OtherWHYY - PUBLIC TELEVISIONIndividual grant recipient: $120,436 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…THE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE: $98,010 · OtherTHE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGELAST CHANCE RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE: $62,025 · OtherLAST CHANCE RANCH ANIMAL…PROVIDENCE ANIMAL SHELTER: $40,500 · Other+1 more: $6,500 · OtherLUDINGTON LIBRARY: $419,180 · EducationLUDINGTON L…WHYY INC: $263,865 · Arts & Culture
Animals$2,591,789Other$901,966Education$419,180Arts & Culture$263,865

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $487,315 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $425,180 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetLUDINGTON LIBRARY: $419,180 over 6y, 23% of budgetFRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS: $419,180 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetMontgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $419,180 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $372,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWHYY INC: $263,865 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Welfare Association Inc: $148,459 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE: $98,010 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $77,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $72,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAST CHANCE RANCH INC: $40,025 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds LUDINGTON LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗
  • Who funds Animal Welfare Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds LAST CHANCE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL TEAM ↗

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.

The Cigna Group Found…The Pfizer Foundation…Lincoln Financial Fou…Chubb Charitable Foun…Aetna Foundation IncUnited Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…Petsmart Charities IncCharities Aid Foundat…The Leslie Miller and…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Greater Good Charities
The Cigna Group FoundationPA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cigna Group Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Good Charities

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Htc Cottee Josephine & Evelyn Smith Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Htc Cottee Josephine & Evelyn Smith Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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