· Private foundation
The Dale H and Jeane V Smart Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE DALE H AND JEANE V SMART 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $987k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSS ROADS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $213,472 |
| ELIZABETH SETON CENTER | $201,700 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH | $187,626 |
| EYE & EAR FOUNDATION OF PITTSUBRGH | $165,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UPMC PASSAVANT HOSPITAL | $69,031 |
| UPMC PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL AVIARY | $15,000 |
| PHILIPPINE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TREASURE COAST INC | $10,000 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $8,581 |
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 (FY19–25, $949k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $745k 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
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $919k · revenue +93%
- CDCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +355%
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2022 · $482k · revenue +5%
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PITTSBURGHone grant, 2019 · $240k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HECTORone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
To support parenting by enabling young children to grow & learn in a safe, stimulating, loving environment. pic works to provide and increase access to high-quality early childhood education and school-age programs that give children…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. seton health at schuyler ridge residential healthcare (schuyler…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cross Roads Presbyterian Ch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROADS PRESBYTERIAN CH ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Baltimore Next Generation Investing Event Inc ↗
- Who funds Warrior Rising ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds One Summit Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILIPPINE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TREASURE COAST ↗
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: Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Dale H and Jeane V Smart 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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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