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The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose.

$121M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Public Benefit$1.5MEducation$462kHealth$350kArts & Culture$205kCommunity Improvement$197kHuman Services$102kPhilanthropy$101kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $389,376 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $121,223,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,834,029 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$31,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF NORTHAMPTON$250,000
COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL$83,333
GREATER NORTHAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$31,500
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON$13,000
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC$11,543
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 (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERFAITH COMMUNITY COT SHELTER: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS I: $5k → 12%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$2.7M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+81%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • FC
    FIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED
    4× · 2018–2022 · $454k · revenue +15%
  • GN
    GREATER NORTHAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +11%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $102k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF WHATELY
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • THE NORTHAMPTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +81%
  • GI
    GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +20%

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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

3
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

4
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
The New England Council Inc

To foster growth of the competitive enterprise system of business in new england; to develop and maintain comprehensive views of new england conditions and problems; to secure recognition of the commonality of economic interest specific to…

8
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits

The new hampshire center for nonprofits strengthens and gives voice to the state's nonprofit sector by providing leadership development programs, facilitating collaboration, and offering learning opportunities for nonprofit leaders, staff,…

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
Northeast Human Resources Association Inc

The mission of the northeast human resources association is to lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.

11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region and the most unlike its peers is What Is Missing Foundation Fka the Extinction Project. 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

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SMITH VOCATIONAL AND AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL — $1,412,000 · OtherSMITH VOCATIONAL AND AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOLMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $250,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDGREATER NORTHAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $196,695 · OtherGREATER NORTHAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCESAFE PASSAGE INC — $102,499 · OtherCOOLEY DICKINSON HEALTH CARE CORPORATION — $100,000 · Other+3 more — $126,200 · Other+3 moreFIVE COLLEGES INCORPORATED — $453,900 · EducationFIVE COLLEGES INC…NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $97,344 · Arts & CultureTHE NORTHAMPTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE FRANKLIN & HAMPSHIRE REGION — $41,352 · PhilanthropyWHAT IS MISSING FOUNDATION FKA THE EXTINCTION PROJECT — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHAMPSHIRE SUPPORT ALLIANCE INC — $10,477 · Human ServicesGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,187,394Education$453,900Arts & Culture$147,344Philanthropy$101,352Human Services$10,477Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Trustees of the Smith College 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Safe Passage Inc55% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Valley30% of income from government
  • Five Colleges Incorporated3% of income from government
  • United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region2% of income from government
  • The Northampton Academy of Music Inc1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc0% of income from government
  • Historic Northampton Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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