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Smith Family Benevolent Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $13,535 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $13,534 |
| STRIVE | $10,134 |
| STAND UP FOR KIDS INC | $10,134 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST | $10,111 |
| CHARITYWATER | $10,049 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS | $10,048 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,017 |
| AIU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $7,628 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $6,068 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $6,068 |
| WILD EARTH ALLIES | $5,138 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $4,500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
CHARITY GLOBAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +36%- WEWild Earth Allies Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +102%
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- AIADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY FUND UNITEDone grant, 2017 · $11k
- EJEARTH JUSTICE WORKSone grant, 2022 · $11k
- SFSTRIVE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +221%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First and the most unlike its peers is The National Adrenal Diseases Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ADRENAL DISEASES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Smith Family Benevolent Fund 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.
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