· Private foundation
Smith Foundation - Trustee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of SMITH FOUNDATION - TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k23 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $90,277 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $90,277 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $90,277 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KY | $63,194 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES OF N KY | $45,139 |
| CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL MINISTRIES | $45,139 |
| BILLY GRAHAM MINISTRIES | $45,139 |
| REDWOOD SCHOOL & REHABILITATION | $45,139 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $36,111 |
| ST ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTER INC | $27,083 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $18,055 |
| USPIRITUS INC FKA BELLWOOD PRES | $18,055 |
| MASONIC HOME | $18,055 |
| ION CRISIS CENTER FKA WOMEN CRISIS | $18,055 |
| ST HENRY HIGH SCHOOL | $18,055 |
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 (FY20–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Smith Foundation - Trustee’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 98% 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $520k · revenue +30%
- RSRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +62%
- SESt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $217k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRYone grant, 2020 · $85k
- CHChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +113%
- SEST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $43k
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.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Methodist health provides quality healthcare services with a compassionate and caring spirit to persons, families and communities of the tri-state. at methodist health, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. beverwyck is a member of st. peter's health partners and trinity…
To help make our communities healthier through a focus on whole person health.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
See Disclosure Above.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uspiritus Inc (Bellewood & Brooklawn) and the most unlike its peers is Erlanger Lions Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 35 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ERLANGER LIONS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
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: The Butler Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Duke Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Foundation - Trustee 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.
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.