· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 ENDOWMENT FUND | $25,000 |
| PLYMOUTH HOUSING 3YR FUND | $25,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR FREE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE BRADY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| LEWIS COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- TWTHIRD WAY INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +81%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +15%
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orin Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orin Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Orin Smith Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Orin Smith Family Foundation 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.
Play a game based on Orin Smith Family’s filings →