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Louis and Dora Smith Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2022
22
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Louis and Dora Smith Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Louis and Dora Smith Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $82k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
9
’18
8
’19
10
’20
7
’21
12
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.5MHealth$263kEducation$27kReligion$16kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k19 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH$27,000
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$18,000
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH$10,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$3,000
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$3,000
SHOAH FOUNDATION$3,000
GO2 FOUNDATION FOR LUNG CANCER$2,000
A BREATH OF HOPE LUNG FOUNDATION$2,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$1,877
ZERO PROSTATE CANCER$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MARYLAND$1,000
BETH EL CONGREGATION$1,000
CHANCE FOR LIFE$1,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$1,000
BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 8%A BREATH OF HOPE LUNG FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $3k → 14%ZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $2k → 9%SOUL CENTER: $2k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $27k → 19%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $2k → 14%SOUL CENTER: $2k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $27k → 19%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $2k → 14%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $15k → 19%SHOAH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $14k → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $2k → 14%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $11k → 19%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $10k → 19%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $2k → 14%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $8k → 19%HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $2k → 11%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $5k → 19%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $5k → 19%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $5k → 19%LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH: $3k → 19%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS KIMMEL CANCER CENTER: $5k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DR CHRISTINE HANN: $24k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $23k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DR CHRISTINE HANN: $22k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $18k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DR CHRISTINE HANN: $18k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $18k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $18k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $18k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $18k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $17k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $10k → 19%THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $3k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $3k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 27 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
9

Total granted

$425k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+72%

Still filing today

52%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
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

  • LH
    LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +88%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +64%
  • LC
    LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue ×34
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute

The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.

Health
5
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
8
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
9
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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10
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
11
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
12
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lung Cancer Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is The Boys' Latin School of Maryland 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

25 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. 25 of the 45 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,430,513 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COM FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $117,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DR CHRISTINE HANN: $63,818 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS U…JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $16,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS M…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $13,650 · OtherHOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $10,000 · Other+20 more: $44,855 · Other+20 moreLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $116,000 · HealthLIFEBRIDG…LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthLUNG CANC…HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $6,000 · Health+9 more: $20,877 · Health+9 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $24,360 · EducationTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $4,750 · Education+1 more: $750 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 · Civil RightsCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 · International
Philanthropy$1,431,013Other$265,323Health$154,377Education$29,860Civil Rights$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,500International$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,430,513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $116,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $24,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $4,877 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANCE FOR LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL LOVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT ↗
  • Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ZERO PROSTATE CANCER ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHANCE FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis and Dora Smith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis and Dora Smith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–60%
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 45 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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