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The Smith Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$7.4MHealth$5.7MInternational$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.6MHuman Services$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.2MFood & Nutrition$802kCivil Rights$683kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $476k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.1M
$50,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAHN ACADEMY$1,000,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$525,000
RAICES$450,000
FLORENCE IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT$450,000
LDS PHILANTHROPIES$450,000
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO$250,000
BYU PATHWAY WORLDWIDE$200,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$120,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF NURSING$100,000
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$100,000
OPERATION SECOND CHANCE$100,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $50k → 17%AMIGOS OF HONDURAS: $5k → 6%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $13k → 8%PEACE HOUSE: $50k → 5%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $10k → 8%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 7%PEACE HOUSE: $40k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE: $50k → 12%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%FAMILY TREE: $12k → 7%WARREN VILLAGE: $40k → 12%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE: $40k → 12%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%FAMILY TREE: $5k → 7%WARREN VILLAGE: $35k → 12%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $10k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $10k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE: $10k → 12%CY-FAIR HELPING HANDS: $25k → 16%WARREN VILLAGE: $10k → 12%CY-FAIR HELPING HANDS: $20k → 16%WARREN VILLAGE: $8k → 12%CY-FAIR HELPING HANDS: $14k → 16%WARREN VILLAGE: $7k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $78k → 8%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $37k → 8%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $13k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $13k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $15k → 8%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $13k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $12k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%KIDVANTAGE: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%KIDVANTAGE: $10k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $10k → 9%CHARITY WATER: $25k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $25k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $15k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 80 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
52

Total granted

$24M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +123%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $775k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • MF
    MENON FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • BI
    BELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
4
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
7
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
8
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
9
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Kae Me 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Military Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsCancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/110
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,455

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.

04the grantee network

97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 143 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/97
Grantees still filing
61/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LDS PHILANTHROPIES — $2,162,500 · OtherLDS PHILANTHROPIESBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHO — $1,600,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHOMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,250,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF NURSING — $510,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY — $510,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $395,000 · Other+73 more — $5,289,000 · Other+73 moreKHAN ACADEMY INC — $4,450,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCDONORSCHOOSEORG — $180,110 · Education+4 more — $184,000 · EducationALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $780,000 · HealthALS THERAPY D…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $775,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S D…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $350,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S F…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $250,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUN…+16 more — $627,500 · Health+16 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,080,000 · InternationalInternational…Save The Children Federation Inc — $290,000 · InternationalSave The Chil…Mercy Ships International — $270,000 · InternationalMercy Ships I…WATERAID AMERICA INC — $200,000 · InternationalWATERAID AMER…Matthew 25 Ministries Inc — $200,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 Mi…OPERATION SMILE INC — $190,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMI…Their Story Is Our Story — $190,000 · InternationalTheir Story I…DIRECT RELIEF — $175,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFLifting Hands International — $156,000 · International+10 more — $353,000 · International+10 moreEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $605,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $532,500 · Civil Rights+1 more — $30,000 · Civil RightsPeace House Inc — $235,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $204,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $199,500 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGE — $67,500 · Human ServicesCY-FAIR HELPING HANDS — $64,000 · Human ServicesISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK — $62,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC — $50,000 · Human Services+4 more — $70,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $530,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$11,716,500Education$4,814,110Health$3,132,500International$3,104,000Civil Rights$1,167,500Human Services$1,077,500Crime & Legal$545,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $4,450,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,080,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $780,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $775,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $605,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $532,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $530,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $350,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $290,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $290,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $290,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $270,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $250,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $250,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPeace House Inc — $235,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $204,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $199,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $190,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTheir Story Is Our Story — $190,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $180,110 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO — $172,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $160,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLifting Hands International — $156,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetThe Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $118,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMothers Without Borders — $100,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHope For The Warriors — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Response Management Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place — $68,000 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetKIDVANTAGE — $67,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCY-FAIR HELPING HANDS — $64,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK — $62,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC — $53,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBELLWETHER INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
  • Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds Their Story Is Our Story ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
  • Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…Sorenson Legacy Found…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…The Bungie FoundationSeattle FoundationUniversity ImpactGlassybaby White Ligh…Chc Creating Healthie…McKinstry Charitable …The Denver Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT15.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Bungie Foundation · Seattle Foundation · University Impact · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Chc Creating Healthier Communities · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · The Denver 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 Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
24report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Smith Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Smith Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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