· Private foundation
The David & Vickie Smick Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CSIE | $3,250,000 |
| BLACK OPPORTUNITIES INC | $100,000 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATI | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FDN | $50,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI | $50,000 |
| LHAAMC | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE | $50,000 |
| BEAR GIVERS | $40,000 |
| THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET | $27,000 |
| UNIV OF CHICAGO - CELIAC DISEASE | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC PALISADES PRESBYTARIAN CHUR | $25,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA | $25,000 |
| SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $21,000 |
| WILDWOOD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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, $501k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- CFCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY3× · 2017–2020 · $2.1M · revenue +28% · 89% of their budget
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +52%- BGBEAR GIVERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $198k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE INTERNAone grant, 2021 · $1.4M
- CGCommon Ground Committee Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%
- RMRonald McDonald House Globalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +82%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
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 New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seven Arrows Elementary School and the most unlike its peers is The Inkwell Theater 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 59 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 CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR GIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ARROWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Common Ground Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACK KEMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT COMMUNICATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Inkwell Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds VIDIOTS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Newcastle Foundation Tr Co Brown Brothers · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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 David & Vickie Smick 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.
- Historic Annapolis Inc — 45% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ballet Vero Beach Inc — 0% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center 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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