· Private foundation
Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k72 grants · $271k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $967k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $932k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOZAYIK | $157,000 |
| THEDACARE FAMILY OF FOUNDATIONS INC | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ELISHA D SMITH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC | $80,000 |
| SCCOMADC | $75,000 |
| FIRST AID ARTS | $70,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY | $50,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC | $50,000 |
| HIMALAYAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOGA SCI & PH | $50,000 |
| COTS INC | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC | $40,000 |
| PERUVIAN HEARTS | $39,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC | $37,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
148 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- TFThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $888k · revenue +44%
- MMOZAYIK6× · 2019–2024 · $565k · revenue +48% · 100% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $561k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- NCNOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue -15%
- CACALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -6%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +77%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Moran State Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
224 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. 224 of the 280 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds MOZAYIK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST AID ARTS ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE COMMUNITY COALITION OF MADISON AND DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PERUVIAN HEARTS ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GO INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENONE LTD ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Elisha D Smith Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds COTS INC ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO AREA LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OSHKOSHINC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc · Jek 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 Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rocky Neck Art Colony Inc — 1% of income from government
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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