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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 $10k12 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FGCU FOUNDATION | $15,050 |
| IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTEGRITY CHURCH | $2,500 |
| CIRCLE PLAYERS THEATER | $1,000 |
| FLORIDIANS FOR DEMOCRACY | $1,000 |
| SPOHNC | $1,000 |
| OBLATES OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES | $1,000 |
| BONITA SPRINGS CHARTER SCHOOL | $850 |
| BONITA SPRINGS YMCA | $700 |
| GREATER ESTERO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $550 |
| STRENGTH N HONOR CHARITIES | $300 |
| BOYS TOWN | $100 |
| GREATER NAPLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $60 |
| USO | $25 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- IRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +82%
- PCPLAYERS CIRCLE ART CENTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +77%
- TFTHE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC4× · 2018–2022 · $3k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- HUHODGES UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -100%
- IRINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS EDITORSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CCCHILD CORE OF SWFLone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
We continually convene a statewide community of committed leaders to enhance and recharge their leadership skills and to educate and inspire them to work across their strengths and diversities for a better florida. we engage floridians by…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The st petersburg area chamber of commerce shall be the preeminent leader of business in order to ensure the economic growth and vitality for all in our community.
The greater fort myers chamber of commerce represents over 800 businesses, professionals, and individuals throughout lee county. we provide opportunities for members to network with other businesses, participate in meaningful committee…
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
To serve our members and enhance our community by building business success.
Success for our members and our profession through connecting, learning, and leading.
Fpca's mission is to continuously enhance law enforcement by providing a unified voice for police chiefs statewide and nationally, serving as the public face of law enforcement executive leadership, and providing a forum for executive…
To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.
Grow an economy based on high-skill, high-wage sustainable businesses. we focus on business recruitment and expansion, business advocacy, facilitating collaborative partnerships and advancing strategic initiatives in central florida's polk…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charity for Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 100 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 FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Nations Association Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds HODGES UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS CIRCLE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN A DUBIN ALZHEIMER'S RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH LEE EDC INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christys Cause Inc ↗
- Who funds Women Giving Back Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA 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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · West Bay Community Charitable Foundation · The League Club Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lee County Bar Association 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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