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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $389,376, the rows itemized in this filing. The $121,223,405 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $120,834,029 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (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 its 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
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+15%
+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
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

  • 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%
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.

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
Northeast Human Resources Association Inc

To lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.

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3
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.

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4
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

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

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5
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
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

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7
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
8
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…

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9
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
10
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
11
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
12
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

Community Foundation …The Beveridge Family …Easthampton Savings B…Mass General Brigham …Living Springs Founda…Select Equity Group F…Florence Savings Char…Peoplesbank Charitabl…Aetna Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Trustees of the Smith College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trustees of the Smith College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
  • Five Colleges Incorporated: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region: 2% of income from government
  • The Northampton Academy of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Historic Northampton Inc: 0% 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, 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.

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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