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The Smith & Witt Family Foundation at a glance

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The Smith & Witt Family Foundation

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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$32kHuman Services$31kInternational$26kFood & Nutrition$13kCivil Rights$5kAnimals$2kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$403k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION$10,500
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$5,500
MINNIES FOOD PANTRY$4,500
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$3,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,750
GIVEWELL$2,750
THE ACCESS FUND$1,054
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HENDRICK SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 6 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$87k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +15%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +1%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • NB
    NOTHING BUNDT CAKES FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +66%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
2
Npr Foundation

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…

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3
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
4
National Farmers Union Foundation

The national farmers union foundation's (nfuf) mission is to empower people to educate our youth, neighbors, media and policymakers on the social, economic and cooperative contributions of family agriculture.

Food & Nutrition
5
Home Planet Fund

None

Environment
6
Nonprofit Finance Fund

Nonprofit finance fund is a nonprofit lender, consultant, and advocate. for 45 years, we've helped organizations access the money and resources they need to realize their communities' aspirations. alongside others, we're working to build…

Community Improvement
7
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
8
The Aopa Foundation Inc

See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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11
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
12
National Foundation for Credit Counseling Inc

To lead a national movement that better equips americans to manage their financial futures and, in turn, advances the economy and our nation as a whole. founded in 1951, the national foundation for credit counseling (nfcc) is the oldest…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hendrick Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ACCESS FUND: $16,054 · OtherTHE ACCESS FUNDNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $15,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $8,500 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKNOTHING BUNDT CAKES FAMILY FUND: $5,000 · OtherNOTHING BUNDT CAKES FAMILY FUND+1 more: $1,000 · OtherEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Human ServicesEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATIONMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUND…THE CLEAR FUND: $7,750 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionOPERATION KINDNESS: $1,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE SPCA: $1,000 · AnimalsHendrick Scholarship Foundation: $1,000 · Education
Other$46,054Human Services$26,000International$17,750Philanthropy$7,750Civil Rights$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,500Animals$2,000Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $16,054 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $7,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE SPCA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Smith & Witt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smith & Witt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Smith & Witt Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Smith & Witt Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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