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The Smith Foundation 009090-002
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC | $20,000 |
| ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE | $1,500 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER | $1,000 |
| STARR LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC | $1,000 |
| LAKE PLACID PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| RHINEBECK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| BRING CHANGE 2 MIND | $1,000 |
| FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AMADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +23%
- NDNorthern Dutchess Hospital3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +19%
- LPLake Placid Public Library3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HSHOTCHKISS SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $44k
- LPLAKE PLACID NORTH ELBAone grant, 2023 · $1k
- LPLAKE PLACID FORUM FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Starr Institute Inc Dba Starr Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northern Dutchess Hospital ↗
- Who funds Lake Placid Public Library ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STARR INSTITUTE INC DBA STARR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
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: Kingsley Foundation 009009-009 · The Teck Foundation 009090-003 · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Foundation 009090-002 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.
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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