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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.

$993k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$762kHealth$696kReligion$550kEducation$444kHuman Services$431kHousing & Shelter$347kInternational$280kCrime & Legal$275kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $882k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Friends of Onancock School$35,000
One Spirit$35,000
1269 Cafe Ministries$30,000
The David J Popek Memorial$30,000
Patriots Cove Inc$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
American Legion Charities$30,000
Open Doors Christian Fellowship (ODCF)$25,000
Choices Women's Clinic Inc$25,000
Florida Baptist Children's Homes$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Linus Project: $2k → 8%Valley Strong Disaster Relief: $15k → 12%Paulding Cops for Kids Inc: $10k → 8%Families and Communities Together: $15k → 8%Paulding Cops for Kids Inc: $10k → 8%Families and Communities Together: $15k → 8%Paulding Cops for Kids Inc: $3k → 8%Families and Communities Together: $15k → 8%Rotary Club of Asheville Foundation: $20k → 12%Coastal Authority Care Foundation Inc: $5k → 10%Pike County Hands of Hope: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co Thelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 56 repeat orgs$854k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
36

Total granted

$3.8M
$721k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+10%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEducationReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LI
    LEAD INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $221k · revenue +42%
  • 1C
    1269 CAFE MINISTRIES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +54%
  • TF
    TASLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $142k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • DC
    Del-Mar-Va Council Boy Scouts of
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Middlesex Township Volunteer Fire Company

The mission of the middlesex township volunteer fire company is to provide fire and rescue services to the local community.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Hereford Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Volunteer fire fighting

Health
3
New Manchester Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire fighting

—
4
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

—
5
Delaware Valley Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire fighting and rescue services.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Ocean View Volunteer Fire Co Inc

Provide fire fighting services to the residents of dennis township

Recreation & Sports
7
Susquehanna Fire Departmentinc

Fire & emergency protection

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Hurt Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide emergency services to the town of hurt, northern pittsylvania county and the surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Pond Mountain Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Marklesburg Volunteer Fire Company Number 1

Fire protection service for the marklesburg area

Public Safety & Disaster
11
New Hanover Township Volunteer Fire Company No 1

Volunteer fire fighting

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Port Matilda Fire Company Inc

The port matilda fire company provides fire rescue and emergency services to area residents it is a local volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Francis Friends of the Poor Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 101 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/61
Grantees still filing
36/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC INC: $160,000 · OtherCHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC INCIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherBerkshire Institute for Christian: $115,000 · OtherClarke Schools for Hearing and Speech: $110,000 · OtherAmerican Legion Charities: $106,000 · OtherST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $90,000 · Other+59 more: $1,903,202 · Other+59 moreLEAD INC: $220,960 · HealthLEAD INCCARLSTADT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $90,000 · HealthCARLSTADT VOL…ST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC: $70,000 · HealthST FRANCIS FR…Cure Childhood Cancer Inc: $40,000 · HealthCure Childhoo…JETT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthJETT FOUNDATI…LANA TURNER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthLANA TURNER F…Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $35,000 · Health+3 moreTASLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $141,552 · Public Safety & DisasterTASLEY FIRE…MELFA VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCU: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMELFA VOLUN…WALLINGTON FIRE CO INC: $90,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWALLINGTON …WALLINGTON PARK ROW HOSE CO 3: $81,500 · Public Safety & DisasterWALLINGTON …ONANCOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $42,000 · Public Safety & DisasterONANCOCK VO…Bloxom Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $38,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBloxom Volu…1269 CAFE MINISTRIES: $150,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $70,000 · ReligionMIDDLE EAST MISSIONS INC: $50,000 · ReligionOVERWHELMED MINISTRY INC: $20,000 · ReligionALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $100,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $75,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $70,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ONANCOCK SCHOOL: $173,500 · EducationFORUM SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · EducationCARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $26,000 · EducationEASTERN SHORE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationONE SPIRIT: $70,000 · Human ServicesROTARY CLUB OF ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF: $45,000 · Human ServicesPaulding Cops for Kids Inc: $23,000 · Human ServicesPIKE COUNTY HANDS OF HOPE: $20,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY STRONG DISASTER RELIEF INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,500 · Human Services
Other$2,604,202Health$565,960Public Safety & Disaster$493,052Religion$290,000International$270,000Education$244,500Human Services$229,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEAD INC: $220,960 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ONANCOCK SCHOOL: $173,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetCHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budget1269 CAFE MINISTRIES: $150,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetTASLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $141,552 over 3y, 19% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMELFA VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCU: $100,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWALLINGTON FIRE CO INC: $90,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetCARLSTADT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $90,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetWALLINGTON PARK ROW HOSE CO 3: $81,500 over 4y, 62% of budgetST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE SPIRIT: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDOS SANTOS: $64,352 over 3y, 19% of budgetSONSHINE SOUP KITCHEN: $60,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetEASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $55,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSKYLANDS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPARENT TO PARENT ADDICTION SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MISSIONS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetMERK OF NEW JERSEY INC: $50,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF: $45,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPIKE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetONANCOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $42,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLANA TURNER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetBloxom Volunteer Fire Co Inc: $38,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFORUM SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCARLSTADT FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaulding Cops for Kids Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetDelaware Township Volunteer Fire Company: $20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMOOSE CHARITIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIKE COUNTY HANDS OF HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOVERWHELMED MINISTRY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetFREEDOM STAFFING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMARTIN CENTRE PRESERVATION COMPANY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY STRONG DISASTER RELIEF INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FORUM SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WALLINGTON FIRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds CARLSTADT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds WALLINGTON PARK ROW HOSE CO 3 ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ONE SPIRIT ↗
  • 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 PARENT TO PARENT ADDICTION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ASHEVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERK OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Eastern Shore of Virg…Celanese FoundationThe Gap FoundationT Rowe Price Program …Texas Instruments Fou…Servant FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…AbbVie FoundationVerizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …
Eastern Shore of Virginia Community FoundationVA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E & Marie Orr Smith Foundation Co The. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Lead Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Forum School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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