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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.
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 $10k26 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAPEL CROSSPOINT | $16,600 |
| EPIC CHURCH OF BUFFALO | $15,800 |
| CHRIST FELLOWSHIP | $13,700 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $13,700 |
| HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF BUF | $10,000 |
| MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ERIE CO | $1,000 |
| 27 SANDWICHES | $1,000 |
| GATEWAY LONGVIEW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| NEWS NEEDIEST FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TMTHE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +359%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +145%- GFGATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500
- PFPUNT FOUNDATION (PCC RIBBON CLASSIC EVENT)one grant, 2021 · $200
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BFLO FOUNDATone grant, 2018 · $100
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.
Kol hanearim provides care for some of the most vulnerable members of society: orphans and children at-risk. our vision is to help these children develop from receivers to givers and see that they have the tools and support to break the…
To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
City relief provides fresh, nutritious meals and essential care items to individuals in need; as well as creating individualized action plans including connections to programs,offering support and encouragement.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
To operate an inpatient and outpatient hospital, clinics and treatment centers for the delivery of acute medical, surgical and preventative health care services.
Canton potsdam hospital's mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets community needs.
Housing and programs for sick children and thier families.
The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horizon Health Services and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 43 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 THE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MICHAELS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CLARENCE FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NIGHT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds 27 SANDWICHES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · East Hill Foundation · E&W G Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Smith Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Place of Hope 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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