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W Keith Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
41
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations W Keith Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving40$83k73%
FY202413$22k62%
FY20233$7k33%
FY20224$3k75%
FY202110$4k100%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20191$3k0%
FY20181$3k0%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$43kFood & Nutrition$24kEducation$23kScience & Tech$14kArts & Culture$8kEnvironment$8kPhilanthropy$5kReligion$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$24,20050%
University of Western Ontario Foundation Inc$14,0003n/a
River City Brass Band Inc$5,00010%
Search Inc$5,00010%
Lung Cancer Research Foundation$5,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc$5,00010%
Shady Side Academy$5,00010%
St Margaret Foundation$2,50010%
Shadyside Presbyterian Church$2,5001n/a
Cr Jrs Chip$2,30030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W Keith Smith Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $24,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRiver City Brass Band Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSearch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Western Pa Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShady Side Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Margaret Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCr Jrs Chip: $2,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEpilepsy Association of Western and Central Pa: $2,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFrick Art & Historical Center Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAudubon Society of Western Pa: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRiverlife: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Animal Shelter Nfp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManchester Bidwell Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWqed Multimedia: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifechronicles Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Club of Allegheny County: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Library Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Parks Conservancy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Animal Rescue: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to W Keith Smith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to W Keith Smith Family 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.

About W Keith Smith Family Foundation

How much does W Keith Smith Family Foundation give?
W Keith Smith Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $88,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does W Keith Smith Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (16%).
Who are W Keith Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($24k), University of Western Ontario Foundation Inc ($14k), River City Brass Band Inc ($5k).
Does W Keith Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does W Keith Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as W Keith Smith Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Burke Family Foundation, The Burke Foundation.
Where is W Keith Smith Family Foundation based?
W Keith Smith Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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