Does The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The Gordon Charter Foundation, W W Smith Charitable Trust.

The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation

The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation

Q: What does The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Education (19%), Health (10%).

Q: Who are The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bethesda Project ($117k), The Care Center Foundation ($111k), Cityteam Ministries ($105k).

Q: Does The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$666k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.0MEducation$979kHealth$540kHousing & Shelter$503kFood & Nutrition$354kEmployment$317kScience & Tech$290kArts & Culture$280kOther$0

02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $82k
$10k–50k48 grants · $585k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE CITY SCHOOL	$15,000
BETHESDA PROJECT	$15,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
GOOD WORKS INC	$15,000
NEW HORIZONS SENIOR CENTER	$14,500
CITYTEAM CHESTER	$14,000
ORION COMMUNITIES OF PHOENIXVILLE	$14,000
VETERANS MULTI-SERVICE CENTER	$14,000
WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE	$13,000
THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY	$13,000
MIGHTY WRITERS	$13,000
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF	$13,000
CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES	$13,000
WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER	$13,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $628k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.1M · 86 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

86 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+68%

Still filing today

72%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

BP
BETHESDA PROJECT
9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +30%
TC
THE CARE CENTER FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +69%
CM
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +50%

Funded once

PW
PHILADELPHIA WOODEN BOAT FACTORY
one grant, 2017 · $10k
FI
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE SCIENCE MUSUEM
one grant, 2017 · $10k
JH
JEVS HUMAN SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +68%

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.

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment

The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education

Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…

Education

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement

Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation

The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…

Community Improvement

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition

Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement

Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services

Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health

Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Child Advocates; the most unlike its peers is First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 97 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/69

Grantees still filing

53/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,862,345Human Services$673,130Education$564,500Food & Nutrition$328,855Housing & Shelter$315,655Health$242,500Philanthropy$205,810

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

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.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA65.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Independence Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Sanders Caroline J S Td No 2 · Td Charitable 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 Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

30report 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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