· Private foundation
The Garatoni-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 $10k18 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $584k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREER ACADEMY | $1,329,142 |
| RISE | $546,500 |
| IVY TECH FDN | $273,500 |
| GARATONI SMITH SCHOLARSHIP | $251,500 |
| CULTIVATE CULINARY | $230,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| SOUTH BEND ELKHART REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WBL HUB CORP | $54,300 |
| ST PIUS CHURCH | $50,000 |
| QUEEN OF PEACE | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $31,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,600 |
| THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $15,000 |
| HOLY CROSS COLLEGE | $13,150 |
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 (FY20–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +208%
- RIREGIONAL INNOVATION AND STARTUP EDUCATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $934k · revenue +14% · 52% of their budget
- TETRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $933k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ITIVY TECHone grant, 2021 · $1.7M
- SCSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2018 · $900k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $250k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
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.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nch Healthcare System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Garatoni-Smith Scholarship Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 105 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 IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL INNOVATION AND STARTUP EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND ELKHART REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARATONI-SMITH SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WBL HUB CORP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds MISHAWAKA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Ventures Inc ↗
- Who funds Unity Gardens ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds STANLEY CLARK SCHOOL 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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Asante Foundation Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · Vera Z Dwyer Charitable Trust Uad 121920 · Sylvester and Tessie Kaminski Foundation · Radiology Inc Foundation · Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center- South Bend Campus 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 Garatoni-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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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