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The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. A college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's challenges. See schedule o.

$121M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$389k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$31,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Trustees of the Smith College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$389k0%
FY20244$373k25%
FY20235$409k40%
FY20225$564k20%
FY20215$261k20%
FY20208$242k25%
FY20196$213k17%
FY20185$225k20%
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What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$1.5MEducation$462kHealth$350kArts & Culture$205kCommunity Improvement$197kHuman Services$102kPhilanthropy$101kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School$1,412,0009n/a
Five Colleges Incorporated$453,90042%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$250,0003n/a
Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce$196,69566%
Safe Passage Inc$102,49931%
Cooley Dickinson Health Care Corporation$100,0003n/a
New England Public Media Inc$97,34481%
Town of Whately$60,0001n/a
Historic Northampton Inc$58,00025%
The Northampton Academy of Music Inc$50,00018%
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All grantees of The Trustees of the Smith College by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School$1,412,0009n/a
Five Colleges Incorporated$453,90042%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$250,0003n/a
Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce$196,69566%
Safe Passage Inc$102,49931%
Cooley Dickinson Health Care Corporation$100,0003n/a
New England Public Media Inc$97,34481%
Town of Whately$60,0001n/a
Historic Northampton Inc$58,00025%
The Northampton Academy of Music Inc$50,00018%
United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region$41,35241%
Hampshire Support Alliance Inc$10,47726%
Girls Inc of the Valley$10,00010%
What Is Missing Foundation Fka the Extinction Project$10,00016%
University of Massachusetts$8,2001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Trustees of the Smith College supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFive Colleges Incorporated: $453,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGreater Northampton Chamber of Commerce: $196,695 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetSafe Passage Inc: $102,499 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNew England Public Media Inc: $97,344 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHistoric Northampton Inc: $58,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetThe Northampton Academy of Music Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetUnited Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region: $41,352 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHampshire Support Alliance Inc: $10,477 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetGirls Inc of the Valley: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWhat Is Missing Foundation Fka the Extinction Project: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Living Springs Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Trustees of the Smith College

How much does The Trustees of the Smith College give?
The Trustees of the Smith College reported 5 itemized grants totaling $389,376, out of $121,223,405 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Trustees of the Smith College fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (51%), Education (16%), Health (12%).
Who are The Trustees of the Smith College's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School ($1.4M), Five Colleges Incorporated ($454k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($250k).
Does The Trustees of the Smith College fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Trustees of the Smith College?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
Where is The Trustees of the Smith College based?
The Trustees of the Smith College is based in MA.

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 16 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 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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