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Smigiel Foundation to Benefit Children and Families Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$103kEducation$77kHealth$50kRecreation & Sports$7kReligion$5kArts & Culture$4kInternational$550Youth Development$340Other$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$169k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,190
Individual grant recipient$1,600
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Creative Waves Foundation$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Samaritan's Purse$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Boys Town$250
Wounded Warrior Project$250
Campus Crusade for Christ$105
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis$50
American Bible Society$50
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Wounded Warrior Project: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$170k · 34 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
78

Total granted

$170k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+22%

Still filing today

15%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +49%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $550 · revenue +53%
  • SN
    SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $135 · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $41k
  • ST
    Season To Share Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Museum of the Bible

The museum of the bible is an innovative, global, and educational institution whose purpose is to invite all people to engage with the transformative power of the bible. we do so through 4 main initiatives: our permanent museum in…

3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
6
Out of Eden Walk

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and national geographic fellow paul salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 24,000-mile, multi-year odyssey that begins in ethiopia and ends in tierra del fuego.

Arts & Culture
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Prison Fellowship International

To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.

Crime & Legal
11
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sacred Heart School — $45,821 · OtherSacred Heart SchoolIndividual grant recipient — $40,549 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPartnership Schools — $21,200 · OtherPartnership SchoolsIndividual grant recipient — $21,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $18,101 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $9,500 · Other+100 more — $104,370 · Other+100 moreSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $2,400 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $120 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentVita Nova Inc — $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $250 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $550 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $75 · ReligionPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE — $150 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $25 · EducationSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC — $135 · Recreation & SportsJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $100 · Public Benefit
Other$270,591Arts & Culture$2,520Youth Development$1,000Human Services$750Religion$625Education$175Recreation & Sports$135Public Benefit$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FROM HARRISON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVita Nova Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC — $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC
  • Who funds HOPE FROM HARRISON INC
  • Who funds CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Smigiel Foundation to Benefit Children and Families Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Vita Nova Inc42% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Smigiel Foundation to Benefit Children and Families Inc?

Find your warmest path to Smigiel Foundation to Benefit Children and Families 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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