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Louis & Mary Kay Smith Family Foundation Inc

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.

$476k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of LOUIS & MARY KAY SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $223k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $253k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT OLAF COLLEGE$35,000
CROSSLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$31,000
THE LIFT GARAGE$29,400
RICE UNIVERSITYWILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$27,500
LAGRANGE COLLEGE$25,000
SAINT THOMAS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY$20,000
CINE LAS AMERICAS$10,000
THE LAKE FOUNDATION$10,000
OUT YOUTH AUSTIN$10,000
CASA MARIANELLA$10,000
BALLET AUSTIN$10,000
AUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER$10,000
WE WIN INSTITUTE$7,650
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEADS: $3k → 11%PERSONAL BEST CHARITY INC: $6k → 11%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION DBA RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $3k → 13%GIRLS WHO CODE: $5k → 17%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 13%PERSONAL BEST CHARITY INC: $3k → 11%GIRLS WHO CODE: $4k → 17%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 13%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $8k → 7%PERSONAL BEST CHARITY INC: $3k → 11%GIRLS WHO CODE: $4k → 17%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 13%PERSONAL BEST CHARITY INC: $3k → 11%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $5k → 13%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $8k → 7%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $4k → 13%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $4k → 13%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $4k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTACAMP KNUTSON: $6k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 9%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $4k → 13%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 9%MICAH 6 OF AUSTIN TEXAS UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $6k → 10%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $4k → 13%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $6k → 7%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTACAMP KNUTSON: $5k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTACAMP KNUTSON: $5k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTACAMP KNUTSON: $5k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTACAMP KNUTSON: $4k → 14%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $5k → 7%MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD: $5k → 7%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTACAMP KNUTSON: $4k → 14%COALITION FOR COURAGE: $3k → 7%COALITION FOR COURAGE: $3k → 7%COALITION FOR COURAGE: $3k → 7%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%UPLIFT NORTH: $4k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLISST PAUL: $3k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP THE: $4k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $4k → 11%FAMILY PARTNERSHIP THE: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 101 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

101 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
37

Total granted

$3.0M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+22%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TL
    The Lift Garage
    7× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +164%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +78%
  • CM
    CASA MARIANELLA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • MF
    MEDFIELD FOUNDATION INCLEGACY FUND CO MEDFIELD TOWN HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • C
    CODEORG
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -22%
  • HP
    HOPKINS PUBLIC ISD #270
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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6
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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7
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
8
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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9
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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11
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Emergency Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Arts CentersDance Arts OrganizationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity Food PantriesYouth Mentoring ProgramsCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%4/101
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,464

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 144 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/93
Grantees still filing
63/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT OLAF COLLEGE — $251,000 · OtherSAINT OLAF COLLEGECROSSLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $152,500 · OtherCROSSLAKE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSAINT THOMAS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $139,000 · OtherSAINT THOMAS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHRICE UNIVERSITYWILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY — $126,000 · OtherRICE UNIVERSITYWILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITYLAKE FOUNDATION THE — $92,000 · OtherLAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $69,875 · OtherThe Lift Garage — $78,525 · Other+81 more — $1,043,025 · Other+81 moreLaGrange College — $205,000 · EducationLaGrange CollegeWE WIN INSTITUTE INC — $45,375 · EducationWE WIN INSTITUTE I…SEVEN DREAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $42,700 · EducationSEVEN DREAMS EDUCA…ROCKING THE BOAT INC — $33,500 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT I…FRIENDS OF ASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL — $30,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF ASCENSI…Cornell University — $25,000 · EducationCODEORG — $25,000 · EducationROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS — $22,500 · EducationCine Las Americas — $20,000 · Education+12 more — $78,000 · Education+12 moreLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $69,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN S…HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH — $40,000 · Human ServicesHILL COUNT…PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $39,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERI…MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD — $37,500 · Human ServicesMEDFIELD F…UPLIFT NORTH — $20,125 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NOR…GIRLS WHO CODE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO …The Family Partnership — $16,000 · Human ServicesThe Family…Personal Best Charity Inc — $14,000 · Human ServicesCoalition for Courage Inc — $12,500 · Human Services+4 more — $19,500 · Human Services+4 moreGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Cookie Cart — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOut Youth Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTA INC — $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $46,875 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $32,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSING FUND — $21,925 · Housing & ShelterNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK OF MA INC — $18,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Banyan Foundation — $32,000 · Community ImprovementMEDFIELD FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — $25,200 · Community ImprovementTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $22,500 · Community ImprovementHOPEWELL MUSIC COOPERATIVE-NORTH — $46,875 · Arts & CultureBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYWOLF PRESS — $13,000 · Arts & CultureMEDFIELD MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $4,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,951,925Education$527,075Human Services$287,625Youth Development$128,000Housing & Shelter$121,300Community Improvement$111,700Arts & Culture$106,875

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLaGrange College — $205,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lift Garage — $78,525 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $69,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC — $47,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEWELL MUSIC COOPERATIVE-NORTH — $46,875 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $46,875 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC — $46,875 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWE WIN INSTITUTE INC — $45,375 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSEVEN DREAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $42,700 over 8y, 11% of budgetAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH — $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $39,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD — $37,500 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetNORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC — $33,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $32,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $32,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMEDFIELD FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $32,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL — $30,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — $25,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC — $25,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cookie Cart — $25,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOut Youth Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCODEORG — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDFIELD DI — $24,500 over 6y, 50% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $24,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTA INC — $24,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK-IT SCIENCE EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL PROGRAMS — $22,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING FUND — $21,925 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL — $21,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC — $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDFIELD HIGH SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC — $20,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetUPLIFT NORTH — $20,125 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCine Las Americas — $20,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC — $18,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK OF MA INC — $18,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRotary Club of Houston Heights Charitable Foundation Inc — $18,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDream of Wild Health — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 LaGrange College ↗
  • Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds CASA MARIANELLA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL MUSIC COOPERATIVE-NORTH ↗
  • Who funds PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WE WIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEVEN DREAMS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE OLYMPIAD INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
  • Who funds Out Youth Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds CODEORG ↗
  • Who funds MEDFIELD DI ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustMortenson Family Foun…The McKnight Foundati…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationMinnesota Community F…The Graco FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…Catholic Community Fo…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN36.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mortenson Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota

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 Louis & Mary Kay Smith Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Medfield Food Cupboard — 6% of income from government
  • New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Louis & Mary Kay Smith Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Louis & Mary Kay Smith Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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