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Smalley Foundation Inc

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
121
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$13MCrime & Legal$17k
02FY2024 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k94 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$200,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY ITF WOODSIDE ANNA$54,756
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ITF ESPINAL DAR$48,900
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ITF FORBES SHEM$39,087
SUNY AT BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY ITF O$36,589
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ITF SARMI$34,000
ST NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE CATHOLIC ACADEMY$30,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ITF TRAN VA$28,571
US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ITF REYE$26,977
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA ITF CELIO ANGEL$26,597
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY ITF UREN$26,100
MANHATTAN COLLEGE ITF SILVA JASON T$25,000
SUNY OSWEGO ITF COSTA BRANDON$25,000
BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY ITF CO$25,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ITF PENA$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ITF TAYLOR WILLIAMS: $25k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE ITF NANA BUDU: $25k → 7%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY ITF GENESIS COTO: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST ITF LESLIE HERNANDEZ: $25k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ITF JILLIAN TAMARAZZO: $25k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY ITF DIANE NGUYEN: $25k → 22%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ITF SETH MOODY: $25k → 6%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK ITF DANIELLE MICLAT: $25k → 7%IONA COLLEGE ITF ANGELIS CALDERON: $25k → 9%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ITF SEBSASTIAN VILLOTA: $33k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ITF BRIAN GARCIA HERNANDEZ: $25k → 14%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ ITF FRANCIS LOQUELLANO: $25k → 16%PACE UNIVERSITY ITF EMMA MERNACL: $25k → 17%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON ITF DENEL NEWTON: $25k → 20%MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $25k → 28%COKER UNIVERSITY ITF ALEXIS BATES: $25k → 21%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA ITF AUSTIN LAUZIERE: $50k → 13%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 7%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 5%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ITF KWAKU NYARKO: $25k → 11%CLARK UNIVERSITY ITF BLERINA ILJAS: $26k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ITF ANGELA GERMAIN: $25k → 16%HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ITF SETH MOODY: $25k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ITF BRIAN GARCIA HERNANDEZ: $25k → 14%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ ITF FRANCIS LOQUELLANO: $25k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $340k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ITF SARA GACE: $25k → 14%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $160k → 7%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 5%THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ITF HAIK VARDERESIAN: $25k → 11%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ITF JONA SULAJ: $25k → 16%ST NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $30k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ITF PAOLA FERREIRA: $25k → 14%ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ITF LEONILA REYES: $25k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $125k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $100k → 7%MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $125k → 28%MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $50k → 28%MANHATTAN COLLEGE ITF ANJALI JOHN: $27k → 28%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ITF TIMOTHY PHAM: $50k → 11%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $125k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ITF CINDY MATA: $26k → 17%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

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
SC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 116 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 103 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
115

Total granted

$8.1M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

9%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $515k · revenue +42%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    3× · 2019–2021 · $250k · revenue +36%
  • OW
    OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • WP
    WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ITF TIMOTHY PHAM
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA ITF AUSTIN LAUZIERE
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 336 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $514,510 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $485,000 · OtherOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $439,338 · Other+182 more: $7,511,692 · Other+182 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $390,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…Manhattan University: $257,405 · EducationManhattan UniversityWellesley College: $250,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVER…New York University: $175,000 · EducationNew York UniversityAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $97,848 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $96,987 · EducationMERCY UNIVERSITY: $88,954 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $78,558 · Education+5 more: $179,833 · Education+5 more
Other$8,950,540Education$1,964,585

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $514,510 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $390,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University: $257,405 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $97,848 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $96,987 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY: $88,954 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $78,558 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $54,833 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 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 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Manhattan University ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smalley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smalley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Smalley Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Smalley Foundation Inc 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.

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 336 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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