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Laura M Smedley Tuw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$31,715
Largest grant, FY2025
$51,298
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Laura M Smedley Tuw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$168k50%
FY20244$144k25%
FY20234$148k75%
FY20224$149k75%
FY20212$148k50%
FY20203$152k100%
FY20193$147k100%
FY20184$135k100%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$353kEducation$125kReligion$100kHealth$89kYouth Development$83kHousing & Shelter$79kAnimals$60kEnvironment$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Laura M Smedley Tuw by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Venango Catholic High School$124,7881n/a
Bridge Builders Foundation$84,4091n/a
Northwest Hospital Foundation$81,71524%
Sugar Valley Lodge Inc$78,90931%
Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation Inc$50,00013%
Venango Training & Development Center Inc$45,28012%
Allegheny Valley Trails Association$42,000110%
Young Women's Christian Association of L$20,1331n/a
Precious Paws Animal Rescue$17,59312%
The Pointe$6,8531n/a
Belles Lettres Inc$2,3951n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($771k), not named here.

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.

Fair Frederick&Ellen MemorialPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Laura M Smedley Tuw

How much does Laura M Smedley Tuw give?
Laura M Smedley Tuw reported 6 grants totaling $167,793 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Laura M Smedley Tuw fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (27%), Education (9%), Religion (8%).
Who are Laura M Smedley Tuw's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Venango Catholic High School ($125k), Bridge Builders Foundation ($84k), Northwest Hospital Foundation ($82k).
Does Laura M Smedley Tuw fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Laura M Smedley Tuw accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Laura M Smedley Tuw?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Laura M Smedley Tuw based?
Laura M Smedley Tuw is based in PA.

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 23 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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