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Stephen S and Dolores R Smith Foundation at a glance

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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.

$347k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$310kReligion$280kPublic Benefit$132kHealth$103kHuman Services$88kYouth Development$67kCommunity Improvement$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAY ON PHILLY$60,725
XAVIER UNIV$47,401
DESKOVIC FOUNDATION$30,000
LIGUORI ACADEMY$25,000
CATO INSTITUTE$25,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM ART$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,863
THE CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY ELEMENTARY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$11,963
WINTERTHUR$11,000
KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HISTORIC TRAPPE$8,500
AMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $950 → 4%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 17%SUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE: $500 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 46 repeat orgs$482k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
49

Total granted

$2.0M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+56%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +70%
  • GL
    GENERATION LIFE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $67k · revenue +1%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • IM
    INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $162k · revenue -4%
  • BC
    BECKER COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -6%
  • BI
    BOOKS INSIDE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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7
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
8
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Drexel University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GWYNEDD-MERCY ACADEMY: $371,000 · OtherGWYNEDD-MERCY ACADEMYLASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $329,475 · OtherLASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM ART: $145,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM ARTOUR LADY OF MERCY: $94,185 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $76,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $63,855 · Other+74 more: $761,152 · Other+74 moreINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $162,000 · EducationINDEPENDENCE …XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $65,216 · EducationXAVIER UNIVER…LIGUORI INC: $28,000 · EducationLIGUORI INCSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $23,024 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'…+3 more: $12,000 · EducationPLAY ON PHILLY: $60,725 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC TRAPPE: $25,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $22,000 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $600 · Arts & CultureCATO INSTITUTE: $77,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FORWARD INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitGENERATION LIFE: $67,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND: $45,500 · HealthHMS SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: $10,000 · HealthLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $2,750 · HealthBRINGING HOPE HOME: $2,460 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,300 · Health+3 more: $2,625 · HealthGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $22,700 · Community ImprovementSOUTH KENSINGTON COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,840,667Education$290,240Arts & Culture$118,825Public Benefit$82,000Youth Development$67,000Health$65,635Community Improvement$23,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $162,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $77,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATION LIFE: $67,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $65,216 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $60,725 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN LIVING ORGAN DONOR FUND: $45,500 over 7y, 19% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC TRAPPE: $25,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $23,024 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $22,700 over 3y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $22,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE: $20,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FORWARD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE: $4,536 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRINGING HOPE HOME: $2,460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH KENSINGTON COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFishermans Mark: $950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIGUEL CONTRERAS FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCHANTED PEACH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Cedarcrest Charit…Connelly FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The Maguire FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Business Leadership O…The Pfizer Foundation…K Ten Kids Foundation…Central Pennsylvania …United Way of Greater…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stephen S and Dolores R Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen S and Dolores R Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Stephen S and Dolores R Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephen S and Dolores R Smith Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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