· Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trenton Youth Wrestling | $25,000 |
| Urban Promise | $25,000 |
| The Age-Out Angels | $25,000 |
| Trenton Circus Squad | $25,000 |
| Rutgers University | $17,500 |
| EveryBody Finds Inner Tenacity | $16,500 |
| Beauty To the Block | $15,500 |
| Trenton Makes Athletic Center | $15,000 |
| Kean University | $15,000 |
| Mercer County Community College | $10,000 |
| Weston Video Media LLC | $6,000 |
| First Antioch Church | $5,500 |
| Haitian Heritage House | $5,000 |
| Messiah University | $5,000 |
| Vermont State University | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 36 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
HomeWorks Trenton2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +161%
Embright Education3× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +146%
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NJ2× · 2023–2024 · $34k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TVTRUE VINE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INCone grant, 2018 · $437k
- NPNJ Pandemic Relief Fundone grant, 2021 · $50k
- COCITY OF TRENTONone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.
Child advocacy
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
Rider university is a comprehensive, private university offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business, education, liberal arts, sciences, music, and fine and performing arts.see schedule o for rider university's mission, vision,…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Trenton Nj and the most unlike its peers is Full Spectrum Therapy Partners Np. 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 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 138 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 HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds Embright Education ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRENTON NJ ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRENTON MAKES ATHLETIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRENTON YOUTH WRESTLING AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES R HALSEY FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey ↗
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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The James Kerney Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Mercer County
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 Inc 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.
- Prevention Education Inc — 39% of income from government
- Passage Theatre Company Inc — 10% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Special Parent Advocacy Group — 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% 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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