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The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$1.4M25%
FY202320$1.1M30%
FY202214$870k36%
FY202112$559k50%
FY20207$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$890kHuman Services$889kHousing & Shelter$835kRecreation & Sports$462kEducation$270kFood & Nutrition$230kAnimals$200kYouth Development$130kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp Freedom Inc: $425,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetTails of Valor Paws of Honor Program In: $375,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetRed Feather Development Group: $375,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetWades Army: $325,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetVictory House of Lehigh Valley: $315,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetEqui-Librium Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetTurning Point of Lehigh Valley Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Homeland Heroes Foundation: $198,400 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Literacy Center: $190,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetMeals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Bethlehem Pa: $160,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetNew Bethany Inc: $145,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Bethlehem: $75,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCommunity Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLehigh County Humane Society: $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Animal Health and Welfare: $70,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLehigh Valley Zoological Society: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHispanic Center Lehigh Valley: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWildlife Information Center Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetReclam the Bay: $45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHammerheads Sled Hockey Associationinc: $37,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetKellyn Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBethlehem Area Public Library: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Bike Works: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThorn: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThoughtful Threads of the Heart: $1,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA38.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa

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.

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About The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc give?
The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $1,402,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (22%), Housing & Shelter (20%).
Who are The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Camp Freedom Inc ($425k), Tails of Valor Paws of Honor Program In ($375k), Red Feather Development Group ($375k).
Does The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Ppl Foundation.
Where is The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc based?
The Davis & Smith Family Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 30 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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