· Private foundation
W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMITH LIBRARY OF REGIONAL | $12,000 |
| PYRAMID HILL SCUPTURE PARK | $10,000 |
| MIDDLETOWN HISTORICAL | $7,940 |
| OXFORD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $7,040 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,124 |
| THE GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA | $5,000 |
| ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $5,000 |
| TALAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MILFORD TOWNSHIP | $4,300 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe House | $3,850 |
| FRIENDS OF WHITE WATER | $3,598 |
| WYOMING HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| WEST CHESTER UNION TOWNSHIP | $2,773 |
| DELHI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| MONROE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMIDDLETOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +249% · 95% of their budget
- OMOXFORD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +30%
- AMATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- WMWilliam McGuffy Museumone grant, 2019 · $12k
- NLNEW LONDON CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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.
Museum
Non profit historical society
To preserve the history of ashland county, ohio, and to provide educational opportunities to read about and experience said history and heritage.
The wayne county historical society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of wayne county.
To collect and preserve any and all historic materials books artifacts machinery etc.
The Granville Historical Society acquires, preserves, and shares Granvilles past with residents and visitors to inspire curiosity about, instill knowledge of, and foster a commitment to our history.
The pioneer and historical society of muskingum county believes that an understanding and appreciation of our historic heritage is essential to maintaining a unique and meaningful identity as a community. the mission of the society is to…
Preserve historical items in paulding county, ohio
To facilitate the collection, preservation and education of the jewish history of central ohio.
To preserve and present the history of warren county and southwest ohio.
Preserve the multi-cultural history of columbus and share that history with the community through a variety of educational programming
Promote an understanding of the history of washington county, ohio by collecting, preserving, and making available to the public, that history, and its relationship to the region beyond washington county.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MIDDLETOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OXFORD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK &MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting ↗
- Who funds The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
- Who funds PREBLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Historic Southwest Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds DELHI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON TWP HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds PREBLE COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ohio Humanities Council · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Middletown Community Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Ohio History Connection · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Robert Gould Foundation Inc · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · First Financial Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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