· Private foundation
Paul L Smith Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAUL SMITH LIBRARY | $1,766 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF YORK | $949 |
| VETERAN'S HELPING HAND INC | $949 |
| PRESSLEY RIDGE | $949 |
| SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $883 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF YORK COUNTY | $883 |
| YORK BENEVOLENT ASSN | $482 |
| YORK LITERACY COUNCIL | $482 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSN | $482 |
| PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST | $482 |
| WOMEN S CARE CENTER | $482 |
| NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS | $482 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $482 |
| LIFE PATH MINISTRIES | $482 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- PRPRESSLEY RIDGE6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +4%
- NLNEW LIFE FOR GIRLS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +62%
- YBYORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2020 · $2k
- PCPA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTICone grant, 2020 · $665
- VFVISIONCORPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $616 · revenue -45%
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.
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
Guided by christian compassion, wesleylife supports the independence, health, and well-being of older adults wherever they call home. as a non-profit organization, we understand our responsibility and obligation to operate with…
The organization's mission is to provide services, advocate for and offer opportunities to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, enabling them to realize their full potential in our communities.
Wesley community services, inc. is focused on providing services to older adults and those of low income. it was established in 2005 as a faith-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to people of all faiths in a…
To provide and administer a comprehensive multidisciplinary, therapeutic and public health nursing program primarily to residents of the southeastern connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The arc of rensselaer county is committed to advocating for the rights and safety of individuals of all ages who primarily have intellectual disabilities and, in some instances, have other developmental disabilities or delays. the arc is a…
We envision arc herkimer as the premier service provider and resource for people with disabilities, and others in our community partnership of caring people committed to excellence, united by values and goals, directed toward unprecedented…
Jevs hireability offers an empowering, customized employment program to assist individuals living with a disability or chronic disease by preparing them for competitive employment and community integration.
We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York Union Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Veteran's Helping Hand Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 PRESSLEY RIDGE ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds YORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORK UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERAN'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONCORPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bruce R & Madelyn G Snyder Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation · York County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Paul L Smith Charitable 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.