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The Smith 5 Private Foundation Nfp
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAWS | $12,437 |
| MY JOYFUL HEART | $10,965 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF SYLVANIA | $4,000 |
| NEVER ALONE FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| JOLIET AREA COMMUNITY HOSPICE | $4,000 |
| SWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION | $4,000 |
| TEAM MAKE A DIFFERENCE | $3,500 |
| OLLIE'S PLACE NYC | $500 |
| CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL GEORGIA | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MJMY JOYFUL HEART NFP8× · 2018–2025 · $74k · revenue +72%
- THTHE HOME 2 HOME PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +105%
- SOSWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION7× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MSMorning Start Missionone grant, 2019 · $6k
- FLFIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -37%
- TSTommy Schuman Foundationone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
Care to terminal patients/families
Committed to improving the quality of life for chicago's low-income elderly, housing opportunities and maintenance for the elderly (h.o.m.e.) helps seniors remain independent and part of their community by offering opportunities for…
Almost home kids provides a bridge from hospital to home through an innovative community-based care system for children with medical complexities. almost home kids responds to the needs of families, trains caregivers, offers respite care,…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Short-term shelter, health and social services for homeless adults who are recovering from illness and injury.
To find a cure for als, provide persons living with als and families support and advocate on behalf of the als community
Providing wheelchairs to individuals worldwide
Offer crisis intervention, supportive counseling and comprehensive referral services to surviving family members throughout chicago following homicide; provide training in sensitive and effective communication with and treatment of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is The Home 2 Home Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 MY JOYFUL HEART NFP ↗
- Who funds THE HOME 2 HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SWIFT OUTDOOR ACCESSIBLE RECREATION ↗
- Who funds Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Chicago Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM MAKE A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds MORNING STAR MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Humane Society of Stillwater Oklahoma Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION OF NEW LENOX TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET MAGNIFICAT INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ILLINOIS ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Smith 5 Private Foundation Nfp 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% 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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