· Private foundation
The Clark R Smith Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE INC | $100,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCORPORATED | $100,000 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $75,000 |
| COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC | $75,000 |
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION INC | $65,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ED SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA INC | $50,000 |
| SAMUEL & ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BAR FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM INC | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC | $50,000 |
| FARESTART | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Clark R Smith Family Foundation’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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +11%
WELLSPRING HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +91%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TFThedaCare Family of Foundations Incone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -70%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -40%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 85 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 ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL AND ALTHEA STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL 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.
Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Tower Family Fund Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · McCarthy Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc
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 The Clark R Smith Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Northeast Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 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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