· Private foundation
Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ROBERT E & MARIE ORR SMITH FOUNDATION CO THE’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $882k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Melfa Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company | $50,000 |
| LEAD | $50,000 |
| Berkshire Institute for Christian | $40,000 |
| Bloxom Volunteer Fire Company Inc | $38,000 |
| Cokesbury Foundation Inc | $35,000 |
| One Spirit | $35,000 |
| Friends of Onancock School | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| American Legion Charities | $30,000 |
| Patriots Cove Inc | $30,000 |
| The David J Popek Memorial | $30,000 |
| 1269 Cafe Ministries | $30,000 |
| Choices Women's Clinic Inc | $25,000 |
| Florida Baptist Children's Homes | $25,000 |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 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; $134k 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
- LILEAD INC5× · 2021–2025 · $221k · revenue +42%
- FOFRIENDS OF ONANCOCK SCHOOL4× · 2021–2025 · $174k · revenue +21%
- 1C1269 CAFE MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $70k
- DCDel-Mar-Va Council Boy Scouts ofone grant, 2023 · $50k
- DCDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of the middlesex township volunteer fire company is to provide fire and rescue services to the local community.
Volunteer fire fighting
Fire fighting
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Volunteer fire fighting and rescue services.
Provide fire fighting services to the residents of dennis township
Fire & emergency protection
To provide emergency services to the town of hurt, northern pittsylvania county and the surrounding area.
This fire and rescue department serves a large area of western ashe county, nc. it responds to fires and first responders calls, mainly in the pond mountain fire district.
Fire protection service for the marklesburg area
Volunteer fire fighting
The port matilda fire company provides fire rescue and emergency services to area residents it is a local volunteer fire company
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Francis Friends of the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pike County Hands of Hope. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
61 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. 61 of the 101 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 LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ONANCOCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds 1269 CAFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TASLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MELFA VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCU ↗
- Who funds WALLINGTON FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CARLSTADT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds WALLINGTON PARK ROW HOSE CO 3 ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ONE SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds THE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds DOS SANTOS ↗
- Who funds SONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLANDS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PARENT TO PARENT ADDICTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERK OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation · Celanese Foundation · The Gap Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Servant Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Forum School — 0% of income from government
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.