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· Private foundation
SMYSER BENJAMIN H FDN TA
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$25k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Health$42kHousing & Shelter$15kInternational$14kEducation$5kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$5kOther$31k
02FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$535k
Total assets
Largest grants
- VINCENT VILLAGE INC$5,000
- HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC$5,000
- FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC$5,000
- QUESTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
- MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYN$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$78k · 6 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +92% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
4
Total granted
$78k
$23k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+92%
+92%
Still filing today
100%
75%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthInternationalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
- SSSUPER SHOT INC3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +57%
- VVVINCENT VILLAGE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +650%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA2× · 2020–2021 · $14k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- LFLEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +56%
- YNYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +169%
- EHERINS HOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +92%
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.
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Indiana Health Centers Inc
To provide high quality health care services for no or minimal charges to people unable to pay. therefore to address the health needs of low income people who are unserved, uninsured or who have a high risk of various health problems by…
Health
2
Central Indiana Corporate
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
Community Improvement
3
The Arc of Northwest Indiana Inc
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
Human Services
4
Indiana University Health White Memorial Hospital Inc
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Health
5
Young Womens Christian Association
Ywca greater lafayette is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all
Human Services
6
Union Hospital Inc
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of family medicine.
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8
Junior Achievement North
Junior achievement north prepares young people with the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities. through financial literacy, career readiness and entrepreneurial programming, we play a critical role in addressing the skills,…
International
9
Northwest Indiana
The mission of nira is to help our members be productive in their business and achieve ongoing profitability through targeted education and ethical and professional standards. we are the visible voice for the real estate interests of the…
Community Improvement
10
Scan Inc
Scan protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.
Human Services
11
Northeastern Indiana Casa Inc
Casa volunteers provide a voice for powerless children involved in judicial proceedings, advocate for the child's best interest, and strive to improve their circumstances and quality of life.
Crime & Legal
12
Indiana University Health Jay Inc
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Services of Allen County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Erins House for Grieving Children 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
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$41,500Other$31,000Housing & Shelter$15,000International$13,500Education$5,000Human Services$5,000Youth Development$5,000
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 SUPER SHOT INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND AND DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF ALLEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds QUESTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ERINS HOUSE FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN 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.
Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn Tw · Zollner Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater · Eric a Baae and Mary C Baade Charitable · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc · Owen & Jean Pritchard Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · United Way of Allen County Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn
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 organisation SMYSER BENJAMIN H FDN TA 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 351638989 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FORT WAYNE CHILDRENS CHOIR INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Smyser Benjamin H Fdn Ta?
Find your warmest path to Smyser Benjamin H Fdn Ta through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines