· Private foundation
Laura M Smedley Tuw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN | $51,298 |
| VENANGO TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $45,280 |
| Northwest Hospital Foundation | $31,715 |
| SUGAR VALLEY LODGE | $30,000 |
| VENANGO MUSEUM OF ART SCIENCE AND | $7,500 |
| Shippenville United Methodist Church | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +43% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2019–2024 · $277k
- OROIL REGION ALLIANCE OF BUSINESS3× · 2020–2023 · $266k
- NHNORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- VCVENANGO CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $125k
- BBBRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $84k · revenue -90%
- RLRENEWED LIVING - EMMAUS HAVEN OF VENANGOone grant, 2020 · $52k
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.
The organization's purpose is to provide a better human habitat for disadvantaged people.
Secure public and private funding to better the lives of the citizens of north central pennsylvania through wise use, development, and protection of the region's natural resources.
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals in need. Our focus is on rescuing and rehabilitating animals. We provide the full curriculum of care for each dog rescued, This includes: shelter, food, spaying & neutering,…
To serve as a steward for the natural and cultural communities in the upper Penns Creek Watershed. We seek to preserve and Honor the agricultural roots of Penns Valley by protecting and conserving its waters, farmland, forests and rural…
The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.
The purpose of the corporation is to rescue misplaced, abandoned, mistreated, abused and/or canines and place them into loving homes.
The organization's mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome dogs of all breeds, with all needs.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUGAR VALLEY LODGE INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VENANGO TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF L ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE POINTE ↗
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: Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laura M Smedley Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laura M Smedley Tuw. Bigger dots raise more.
- Young Women's Christian Association of L: 53% of income from government
How this is measured
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