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Vivian L Smith Foundation at a glance

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Vivian L Smith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
141
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$9.8MEducation$7.3MArts & Culture$3.8MHuman Services$3.2MRecreation & Sports$1.1MYouth Development$1.0MEnvironment$912kHousing & Shelter$832kOther$0
02FY2024 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k102 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.3M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL DONOR BOX DEPT 313$200,000
UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$100,000
TIRR FOUNDATION$100,000
ANNUNCIATION ORTHODOX SCHOOL$100,000
HOUSTON HOSPICE$100,000
TIRR FOUNDATION$100,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$100,000
DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER$100,000
JONES GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RICE UNIVERSITY$100,000
YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC$100,000
UT HEALTH$100,000
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS - HOUSTON$100,000
YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON$75,000
CAMP ALLEN$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HOPE RISING: $60k → 14%STREET GRACE: $25k → 9%CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%STREET GRACE: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $75k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $50k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $25k → 16%CASA MATEO: $25k → 16%CASA MATEO: $25k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $100k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $50k → 16%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $30k → 16%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 16%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%DE PELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $80k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $80k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $25k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMENS CENTER: $70k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMENS CENTER: $30k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMENS CENTER: $30k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 175 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 111 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
77

Total granted

$30M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

68%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $557k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    TIRR Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +63%
  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $884k · revenue +24%
  • HH
    Houston Hospice
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • BC
    BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OFFICE OF INST ADVANCEMENT MSC800
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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4
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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7
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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8
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
9
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
10
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
11
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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12
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ibc Network Foundation. 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

161 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. 161 of the 264 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
157/161
Grantees still filing
108/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Houston Hospice: $800,000 · OtherHouston HospiceSALVATION ARMY: $685,000 · Other+108 more: $12,261,500 · Other+108 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $884,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCH…YES Prep Public Schools Inc: $700,000 · EducationYES Prep Public Sc…Baylor College of Medicine: $425,000 · EducationBaylor College of …Teach for America Inc: $407,000 · EducationTeach for America …University of St Thomas: $400,000 · EducationUniversity of St T…Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc: $350,000 · EducationGood Samaritan Fou…Joy Development School: $310,000 · EducationJoy Development Sc…The Kinkaid School Inc: $245,000 · EducationEMERGE Fellowship: $210,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Education+11 more: $1,146,750 · Education+11 moreTIRR Foundation: $900,000 · HealthTIRR FoundationRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $630,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD …Memorial Hermann Foundation: $450,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann…The Council on Recovery: $400,000 · HealthThe Council on R…THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HO…Kelsey Research Foundation: $280,000 · HealthKelsey Research …Texas Children's Hospital: $258,000 · HealthTexas Children's…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HO…THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $192,000 · HealthThe Blue Bird Circle: $175,000 · Health+8 more: $685,000 · Health+8 moreBakerRipley: $450,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipleyYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $400,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …KIDS' MEALS INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS …DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $307,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CH…Christian Community Service Center Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesChristian Co…DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $200,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SU…Houston Area Women's Center: $200,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $195,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOU…THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $150,000 · Human ServicesMy Connect Community: $150,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON: $115,000 · Human Services+9 more: $605,000 · Human Services+9 moreStages: $512,000 · Arts & CultureStagesMenil Foundation Inc: $455,000 · Arts & CultureMenil Foun…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $355,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…Houston Symphony Society: $205,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Sy…Houston Museum of Natural Science: $200,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Mu…Houston Grand Opera Association Inc: $180,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Gr…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S…ALLEY THEATRE: $130,000 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $105,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $505,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreHouston Botanic Garden: $400,000 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy: $247,000 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $152,000 · EnvironmentHouston Arboretum & Nature Center: $80,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $75,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $55,000 · EnvironmentArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $50,000 · Environment+2 more: $61,000 · EnvironmentHouston Zoo Inc: $300,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $220,000 · AnimalsSpay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc: $105,000 · Animals
Other$13,746,500Education$5,277,750Health$4,520,000Human Services$3,372,000Arts & Culture$2,822,000Environment$1,120,000Animals$625,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIRR Foundation: $900,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $884,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHouston Hospice: $800,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $700,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $630,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetStages: $512,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc: $455,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBakerRipley: $450,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $450,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $425,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $407,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $400,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $400,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $400,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $400,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $375,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $355,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $355,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $350,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc: $350,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetJoy Development School: $310,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $307,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKelsey Research Foundation: $280,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $262,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $258,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL: $250,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $247,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $245,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $225,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $220,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship: $210,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $205,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $200,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROSE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $195,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $192,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $180,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBreakthrough Houston: $175,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Blue Bird Circle: $175,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds TIRR Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
  • Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Stages ↗
  • Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Houston Parks Board ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds Joy Development School ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kelsey Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …The Elkins FoundationStrake FoundationGreater Houston Commu…MD Anderson FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…Houston Endowment IncThe Powell FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The John M O'Quinn Fo…John P McGovern Found…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX131.3× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Houston Endowment Inc · The Powell Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · John P McGovern 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 Vivian L Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vivian L Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Vivian L Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vivian L Smith Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 264 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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