· Private foundation
Stephen S and Dolores R Smith Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of STEPHEN S AND DOLORES R SMITH FOUNDATION’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAY ON PHILLY | $60,725 |
| XAVIER UNIV | $47,401 |
| DESKOVIC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LIGUORI ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM ART | $25,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,863 |
| GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY ELEMENTARY | $15,000 |
| THE CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,963 |
| WINTERTHUR | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC TRAPPE | $8,500 |
| AMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% 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.
46 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
- CICATO INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +70%
- GLGENERATION LIFE4× · 2018–2023 · $67k · revenue +1%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IMINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $162k · revenue -4%
- BCBECKER COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -6%
- BIBOOKS INSIDE INCone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Living Organ Donor Fund. 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 105 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 INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GENERATION LIFE ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND ↗
- Who funds LIGUORI INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TRAPPE ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BECKER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HMS SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · K Ten Kids Foundation Inc · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Stephen S and Dolores R Smith 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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