· Public charity
L B Smith Estate Foundation Inc
Provide grants to organizations for cultural, medical and educational activities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $373,928 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $414,018 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,090 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESSIAH UNIVERISTY | $165,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $126,488 |
| MIDWEST FOODBANK | $29,460 |
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,680 |
| LYCOMING COLLEGE | $9,720 |
| NEW HOPE MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART | $5,080 |
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 (FY17–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $945k · revenue +9%
- LCLYCOMING COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +11%
- SSST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MCMOUNT CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $6k
- GOGREENLIGHT OPERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +162%
- LVLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +26%
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.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…
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.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
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…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lycoming College and the most unlike its peers is Casa Charter School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVE J FREDRICKSEN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT OPERATION ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART ↗
- Who funds CASA Charter School Foundation ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Hall Foundation · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 L B Smith Estate Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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