· Private foundation
The R C Smith Foundation Inc
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 $10k21 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $693k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $45,000 |
| THE IMPACT PROJECT | $40,000 |
| THE IMPACT PROJECT | $40,000 |
| EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RECOVERY | $24,974 |
| EMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
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, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 45 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $605k · revenue +59%
- TITHE IMPACT PROJECT7× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue +125% · 47% of their budget
- NCNortheast Classic Car Museum Inc3× · 2017–2021 · $158k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BSBroad Street UM Churchone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TCTHE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +69%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $35k
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.
To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.
Provide Nursery School services.
Maintain and preserve cemetery.
To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs
Provides residential adult care for facility occupants who are unable to live independently.
The purpose of the clemens center is to enhance the quality of life for all the region's residents by providing a diversity of excellent performing arts programming in a superior facility.
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To serve our members and the people of chenango county through partnership with businesses and all levels of government,to leverage resources for sustainable economic growth.
To preserve and protect the historic nature of buildings, to provide for proper security and continuous rehabilitation, to provide a creative atmosphere for the exchange of historical information to publicize historical research and…
Public library, museum and local history archives
Cooperative library system
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chenango County Spca and the most unlike its peers is 6 On the Square Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 129 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 CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMPACT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Northeast Classic Car Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RECOVERY DEDICATED TO OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CENTS THRIFT SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY BLUES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO VALLEY HOME INC DBA THE CHENANGO VALLEY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds 6 ON THE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PRGM INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OXFORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds South New Berlin Free Library ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RURAL HEALTH NETWORK OF SCNY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF NORWICH ↗
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: The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · The Greater Norwich Foundation · The Frederick B and Ramona E Mirabito Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Otis a Thompson Foundation Inc · The Nycm Foundation · Thomas &Esther Flanagan Charitable Trust · The Higley Foundation Inc · Raymond Foundation · Elisabeth & George Mead Charitable Foundation · The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundation · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr 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 R C Smith Foundation Inc 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.
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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