· Private foundation
W Keith Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| RIVER CITY BRASS BAND | $5,000 |
| SEARCH INC | $5,000 |
| UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA | $5,000 |
| SHADYSIDE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO - IVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ST MARGARET FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UPMC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| DM CARE | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN - EDWARDS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $2,500 |
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 US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($127k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($15k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($15k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 29 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +13%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +47%
- CJCR JRS CHIP3× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…
Phlf works within a 250-mile radius of pittsburgh, pennsylvania to: identify and save historically significant places; renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms and historically designated landscapes;…
The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is University of Western Ontario Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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
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.
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY BRASS BAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Search Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CR JRS CHIP ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PA ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP ↗
- Who funds LIFECHRONICLES INC ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of Allegheny County ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · Hillman Family Foundations · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · The Grable Foundation · Adams Foundation Inc · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation
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 W Keith Smith Family Foundation 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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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