· Private foundation
The Smart Family Fund
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k20 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $840k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RECIDIVIZ INC | $250,000 |
| VOTINGWORKS | $200,000 |
| LETS GET READY INC | $100,000 |
| THE GLOBAL GOOD FUND | $100,000 |
| CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION SOLUTIONS | $70,000 |
| THE BRAVE HOUSE | $60,000 |
| HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC | $60,000 |
| BLAIR HOUSE RESTORATION FUND | $50,000 |
| MIGHTY WRITERS | $50,000 |
| NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| ST JOHNS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC | $50,000 |
| MARET SCHOOL INC | $40,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $35,000 |
| THE NETWORK GROUP INC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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; $65k 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
- RIRECIDIVIZ INC4× · 2021–2024 · $750k · revenue +153%
- LGLET'S GET READY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $480k · revenue +3%
- SJST JOHN'S COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- AOAPPALACHIAN OHIO MANUFACTURERS COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +455%
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +188%- HHHOLLER HEALTH JUSTICE INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
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…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 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 HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VotingWorks ↗
- Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Global Good Fund ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA KIDDO ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN OHIO MANUFACTURERS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEN'S KREW ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY LIVEARTS DBA 142 THROCKMORTON THEATRE ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Hearst Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community 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 Smart Family Fund 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.
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 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.