· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PETER AND PAUL PARISH | $6,500 |
| DEVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $2,775 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| BRANDYWINE VALLEY ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| JUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ARMY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| MAKE A WISH PHILADELPHIA | $1,164 |
| HORIZON'S AT EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL IRON AND STEEL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE | $1,000 |
| JULIA'S GRACE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME | $764 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY8× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +18%
- BRBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +217%
- TATHE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- YOYMCA OF THE ROSESone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- NINEED IN DEEDone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -13%
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Phrma's mission is to conduct effective advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of important, new medicines for patients by biopharmaceutical research companies.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Julias Grace Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Chester County Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hankin Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation
How this is measured
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.
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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