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Smsn Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$17kInternational$12kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$5kEducation$3kReligion$3kArts & Culture$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEER IN MEDICINE$1,500
LUZERN FOUNDATION$1,000
CASA OF LUZERNE CO$1,000
CEO NORTHEAST REG FOOD BANK$1,000
SHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION$1,000
PRATHAM$1,000
IAANEPA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
MERAKEY FOUNDATION$500
ST VINCENT SOUP KITCHEN$151
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE CO: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31k · 10 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
26

Total granted

$31k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

30%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +161%
  • MP
    MERAKEY PENNSYLVANIA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500 · revenue +16%
  • NP
    NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $420 · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MS
    MUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +93%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • MS
    MEENI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono

Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.

Health
2
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
3
Merakey Allegheny Valley School

Provide quality programs and facilities to help the individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities entrusted to our care live with purpose, dignity and to provide opportunities to grow and function at their full potential and as…

Human Services
4
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
5
Lehigh Valley Physician Group

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…

Health
6
Family Care Centers Inc

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network, part of jefferson health. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health…

7
Vna Home Health Services

Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…

8
Crime Victims' Center of Chester County

The crime victims' center of chester county, inc. (cvc) is a nonprofit agency providing free, immediate, and confidential crisis response and compassionate support to children and adults impacted by sexual violence and all other crime. we…

9
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
10
Upmc Carlisle

Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.

Health
11
Keystone Rural Health Center

Provider of health care services to the general population targeting uninsured, low-income and medical assistance individuals.

Health
12
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share and Care Foundation for India and the most unlike its peers is Muni Seva Charitable Foundation Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $12,000 · OtherMUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $4,001 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEENI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $3,000 · OtherMEENI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONSTVINCENT DE PAUL KITCHEN — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherPRATHAM — $2,000 · OtherIAANEPA INC — $1,500 · OtherAAPI — $1,500 · Other+17 more — $9,890 · Other+17 moreMUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalMUNI SEVA CHARITABL…SHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA — $1,000 · InternationalSHARE AND CARE FOUN…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $8,100 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN ME…MERAKEY FOUNDATION — $500 · HealthMERAKEY FOUNDATI…MERAKEY PENNSYLVANIA — $500 · HealthMERAKEY PENNSYLV…+2 more — $200 · HealthCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY — $1,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC — $500 · Human ServicesVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER — $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 · Human ServicesPRATHAM USA — $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION — $420 · Arts & CultureDINNERS FOR KIDS INC — $300 · Recreation & SportsSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC — $100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$37,891International$11,000Health$9,300Human Services$2,100Philanthropy$1,500Education$1,000Arts & Culture$420Recreation & Sports$400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $8,100 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPRATHAM USA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERAKEY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERAKEY PENNSYLVANIA — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION — $420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MUNI SEVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA INC
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA
  • Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SHARE AND CARE FOUNDATION FOR INDIA
  • Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC
  • Who funds MERAKEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MERAKEY PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds VICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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.

William G McGowan Charitable FundIL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Luzerne Foundation · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Allone Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone Charities · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Nesbitt Family Charitable 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 Smsn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Smsn Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Smsn Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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