· Private foundation
THE SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION co S WELLS SMITH
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 909 WBUR | $10,000 |
| UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| VISITING NURSE AND HOSPICE FOR VTNH | $10,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| KINGSWOOD YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAFELINE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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 +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- USUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +73%
- GCGIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +46%
- SISAFELINE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +4%
Funded once
Care Dimensions Incone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%- DMDeCordova Museumone grant, 2021 · $10k
- STSupport the Soupman Corpone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Children's services
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To foster and support the performing arts in the upper valley and lakes region of new hampshire
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
The mission of the northeast human resources association is to lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.
CH-Laconia is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Squam Lakes Natural Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GIBSON CENTER FOR SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Support the Soupman Corp ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT SIERRA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Combined Arms ↗
- Who funds TURNINGPOINT BREAST CANCER REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS BUS INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION co S WELLS SMITH 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.
- Safeline Inc — 64% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit 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.
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