How much did W W SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of W W SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

basicscholarshipsmedical researchphiladelphiachestercancer medicalfood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 238 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $23k
$10k–50k158 grants · $4.4M
$50k–250k76 grants · $6.8M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$243M

Total assets

Largest grants

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUC$223,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$200,000
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$163,000
ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$155,000
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$141,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$138,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$125,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$125,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$125,000
LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$125,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$125,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$125,000
WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY & BIOLOGY$125,000
INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH$125,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$124,931

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 7%. 49% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

The college's mission is to educate for excellence in healthcare practice, leadership, and the continuous acquisition of knowledge.

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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

Chester County Hospital & Health System

The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.

Health

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Philadelphia Chinatown Development

Pcdc provides bilingual, culturally sensitive assistance and services to clients in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood

Community Improvement

Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

The mission of hospice of central pennsylvania is to provide the highest quality of emotional, physical, and spiritual support with compassion and respect.

Human Services

The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

Dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals.

Human Services

Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified

Community Action Commission

Community action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drueding Center and the most unlike its peers is La Salle University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/180

the rest of the field

12%

2,551/21,314

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.

05the grantee network

178 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

177/178

Grantees still filing

151/178

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$39,671,202Education$4,391,350Human Services$1,700,585Food & Nutrition$627,286Health$595,000Housing & Shelter$453,000Youth Development$225,000

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.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA160× affinity120 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Genuardi Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Philabundance

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 organisation W W SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHESTER HOUSING INITIATIVES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300183443 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHESTER HOUSING INITIATIVES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to W W Smith Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to W W Smith Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

W W SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

178 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to W W Smith Charitable Trust?

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W W SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

178 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to W W Smith Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph