· Private foundation
W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund
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 $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 |
| ATRIUM MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $5,000 |
| TALAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA | $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 |
| MARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MONROE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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 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 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +129% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Preble County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anderson Twp Historical Society 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 31 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 94 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund 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.
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.