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Orin Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| DISCOVER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $125,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY BRIDGE TO FINISH | $50,000 |
| CENTRALIA COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PLYMOUTH HOUSING 3YR FUND | $25,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR FREE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE BRADY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ENDOWMENT FUND | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| LEWIS COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +46%
- TCTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +49% · 32% of their budget
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +123%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -19%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +15%- TWTHIRD WAY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +81%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
The council is dedicated to serving students and their families, colleges and universities, sponsoring bodies, governments and employers by promoting academic quality through formal recognition of higher education accrediting bodies and…
Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Evergreen Elementary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR FREE COLLEGE TUITION ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
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.
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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 Orin Smith Family Foundation 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.
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.
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