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Smith Family Foundation

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.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$489kHealth$174kEducation$153kEmployment$25kEnvironment$15kFood & Nutrition$15kCommunity Improvement$7kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
$160,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$487k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST CHURCH OF GROSSE POINTE$160,000
ASCENSION ST JOHN PROVIDENCE$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE AND HARPER WOODS: $5k → 21%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$780k · 11 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$780k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+26%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & 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

  • UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2023 · $48k · revenue +33%
  • MN
    MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CP
    CHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -42%
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
2
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation

Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…

Health
3
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
4
Mclaren Greater Lansing

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
5
Henry Ford Health Genesys Foundation

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
6
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
7
Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
8
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
9
Mclaren Northern Michigan Foundation

To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.

Health
10
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
11
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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12
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Healthcare Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH GROSSE POINTE: $391,750 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH GROSSE POINTEASCENSION ST JOHN PROVIDENCE: $92,500 · OtherASCENSION ST JOHN PROVIDENCEWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $80,067 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYCLEVELAND CLINIC: $50,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC+9 more: $63,500 · Other+9 moreBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEAL…MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $30,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTH…American Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Hear…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $25,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HE…UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $47,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…INFORUM: $25,000 · EducationINFORUMGROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $7,500 · EducationGROSSE POI…MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentGROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EnvironmentFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $5,000 · Human ServicesGROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Community ImprovementDETROIT OPERA: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$677,817Health$111,000Education$85,500Environment$17,500Food & Nutrition$12,500Human Services$5,000Community Improvement$1,500Arts & Culture$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINFORUM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …William & Martha Ford…Lynn & Paul Alandt Fo…Young Woman's Home As…Ethel and James Flinn…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · William & Martha Ford Fund · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Smith Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Smith Family Foundation 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 28 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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