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The Smith Family Charitable Ta

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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$143kYouth Development$124kHuman Services$91kReligion$54kFood & Nutrition$52kEducation$36kArts & Culture$23kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK$7,500
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE$7,500
SPURWINK SERVICES$6,000
MERCY HOSPITAL$6,000
CRESSEY ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
MAINE MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUT$5,000
PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
DAY ONE$5,000
SHALOM HOUSE INC$4,000
CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN$4,000
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL$3,500
WAYFINDER SCHOOLS$3,000
WAYSIDE FOOD PROGRAMS$3,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MAINE$3,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 11%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUT: $10k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUT: $10k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUT: $10k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INST: $10k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUT: $5k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $3k → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INST: $2k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $2k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $1k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $2k → 7%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 33 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
10

Total granted

$530k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+50%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OS
    Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute
    6× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +37%
  • MH
    Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
    6× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +57%
  • M
    MaineHealth
    5× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SO
    SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -85%
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
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter Inc

Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.

Housing & Shelter
2
Crossroads for Women Inc

Crossroads provides gender-responsive addiction and behavioral health treatment services in a safe and respectful environment so individuals and families can lead healthy lives.

Health
3
Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
4
Homeworthy
Human Services
5
Maine Children's Trust

The Maine Children's Trust is a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent abuse and neglect by organizing a strong unified voice that abuse is preventable and to facilitate collaboration to accomplish this goal.

Crime & Legal
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine

Role models (bigs) in one-to-one friendships in seven counties throughout Eastern, Coastal, and Central Maine. They partner with parents, in conjunction with over 30 schools and hundreds of volunteers and generous partners in our community…

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7
Youth-Led Justice

To work towards creating healthy, safer, stronger, and more connected communities through educating youth in restorative justice and by giving youth respondents a second chance to be part of the community.

Crime & Legal
8
Maine Council on Aging

A broad multi-disciplinary network that works to ensure we can all live healthy, engaged, and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities. With the voices of people with lived experience, we work on policy issues related to…

Unclassified
9
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
10
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
11
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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12
Out Maine
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is Just Alternatives. 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

32 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. 32 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Spurwink Services Inc: $26,000 · OtherSpurwink Services IncCRESSEY ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $23,000 · OtherCRESSEY ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINEPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $19,000 · OtherPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTERKIDS FIRST CENTER: $18,000 · OtherKIDS FIRST CENTERSHALOM HOUSE INC: $17,000 · OtherSHALOM HOUSE INCTHE ROOT CELLAR: $8,500 · OtherYMCA: $7,500 · OtherTHE BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7,500 · OtherSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $17,500 · OtherSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Re…+11 more: $37,500 · Other+11 moreMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $37,000 · HealthMercy Hospital Northern …MaineHealth: $33,000 · HealthMaineHealthDAY ONE: $27,500 · HealthDAY ONEMaine Veterans Home: $14,000 · HealthMaine Veterans HomeRonald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc: $12,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Ch…Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $47,000 · Human ServicesOlympia Snowe Wom…THROUGH THESE DOORS: $13,500 · Human ServicesTHROUGH THESE DOO…WAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $12,500 · Human ServicesWAYFINDER SCHOOLSThe Opportunity Alliance: $8,500 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity A…Families First Community Center: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER …The Telling Room: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling…Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girl…GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON TH…SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDS OF IN…+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentGood Shepherd Food Bank: $30,300 · Food & NutritionGood Sheph…Wayside Food Programs: $16,000 · Food & NutritionWayside Fo…FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $3,500 · Food & NutritionFULL PLATE…CULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $22,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE LONG CREEK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $19,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$202,000Health$123,500Human Services$87,000Youth Development$55,000Food & Nutrition$52,300Arts & Culture$22,500Crime & Legal$19,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOlympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute: $47,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $30,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDAY ONE: $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $27,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LONG CREEK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $19,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetKIDS FIRST CENTER: $18,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Veterans Home: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHROUGH THESE DOORS: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAYFINDER SCHOOLS: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Telling Room: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROOT CELLAR: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFamilies First Community Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJust Alternatives: $4,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan L Curtis Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds DAY ONE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LONG CREEK YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KIDS FIRST CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • Who funds Maine Veterans Home ↗
  • Who funds THROUGH THESE DOORS ↗
  • Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Telling Room ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE ROOT CELLAR ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE ↗
  • Who funds Families First Community Center ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Just Alternatives ↗
  • Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
  • Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationSaco & Biddeford Savi…John T Gorman Foundat…Elmina B Sewall Found…The Widgeon Point Cha…Fisher Charitable Fou…The Mimi FoundationVincent B and Barbara…United Way IncSimmons Foundation - …Davis Family Foundati…
Maine Community Foundation IncME45.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Mimi Foundation · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Davis Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Smith Family Charitable Ta 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 44 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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