· Private foundation
Marguerite Carl Smith Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $33,750 |
| PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| PASSHE COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSY | $13,750 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE JERSEY SHORE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| JERSEY SHORE SUMMER RECREATION | $5,000 |
| JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JVJAMES V BROWN LIBRARY7× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +10%
- JSJERSEY SHORE PUBLIC LIBRARY7× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +25%
- JSJERSEY SHORE SUMMER RECREATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $120k
- JSJERSEY SHORE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $119k
- JSJERSEY SHORE CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -38%
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE SUMMER RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LOVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL SIGHT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JERSEY SHORE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marguerite Carl Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marguerite Carl Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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