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Smalley 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.
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 $10k25 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k94 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY ITF WOODSIDE ANNA | $54,756 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ITF ESPINAL DAR | $48,900 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ITF FORBES SHEM | $39,087 |
| SUNY AT BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY ITF O | $36,589 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ITF SARMI | $34,000 |
| ST NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ITF TRAN VA | $28,571 |
| US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ITF REYE | $26,977 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA ITF CELIO ANGEL | $26,597 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY ITF UREN | $26,100 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ITF KAMANU | $25,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE ITF ABBAS ASIYAH | $25,000 |
| SUNY AT NEW PALTZ ITF WORRELL ANIAY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON ITF DORAN MA | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 103 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
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
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $515k · revenue +42%- WCWellesley College3× · 2019–2021 · $250k · revenue +36%
- OWOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA ITF AUSTIN LAUZIEREone grant, 2020 · $50k
- WPWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ITF TIMOTHY PHAMone grant, 2020 · $50k
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +53%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 336 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Smalley 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 2% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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