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· Private foundation
WENDELL & GINGER SMITH FOUNDATION XXX20011
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$23k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
4
Communities
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of WENDELL & GINGER SMITH FOUNDATION XXX20011’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
2018
shaker bridge
2019
shaker bridgecavendish
2020
cavendish
2021
church
2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$384k
Total assets
Largest grants
- The Discovery Museum Inc$9,000
- FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$6,000
- THE DICKEY CENTER$4,000
- Sail Beyond Cancer Inc$1,000
- JUSTICE AT WORK$1,000
- UPPER VALLEY HAVEN$516
- GIVING HEALTH$515
- ST JAMES CHURCH$500
- Street Scapes$500
- MY FRIEND ABBY$250
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 13%. 2% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 edge
repeat funding
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.
82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$73k · 23 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else
23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
23
9
Total granted
$73k
$4k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+47%
+97%
Still filing today
26%
22%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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
- TDThe Discovery Museum Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +38%
- APAlice Peck Day Memorial Hospital3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +47%
- BRBlack River Good Neighbor Services2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- EVEnfield Village Associationone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -56%
- HDHorizons Day Campone grant, 2019 · $500
- CSCavendish Streetscapesone grant, 2021 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
1
The Danbury Hospital
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Health
2
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital
This 67-bed hospital provides emergency services and comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, including cardiology, cancer services, orthopedic surgery and rehab, spinal surgery, pulmonary medicine, imaging services, and a sleep…
Health
3
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
Health
4
Sebasticook Valley Health
Sebasticook Valley Health d/b/a Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital is a critical access hospital whose mission is to be the regional leader in meeting the health needs of our communities, providing quality care, always treating…
Health
5
The University of Vermont Medical Center
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
Health
6
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Eastern Maine Medical Center d/b/a Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center strives to provide exceptional primary and specialty healthcare with a passionate pursuit of excellence in patient safety, clinical quality, and service. Our…
Health
7
Day Kimball Medical Group Inc
To provide physician services to individuals in need of medical care, including preventative care, regardless of ability to pay.
Health
8
Anns Place Inc
To provide comfort and support to people living with cancer and to their loved ones.
Human Services
9
Yale New Haven Hospital
To provide health care services.
Health
10
Abington Memorial Hospital
The mission of abington memorial hospital d/b/a abington hospital - jefferson health is to improve lives.
Health
11
Maine Veterans Home
Maine Veterans' Homes provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation, long term care, memory care, pharmacy support and consultation, and assisted living services for veterans and eligible family members at six facilities across Maine.
Health
12
Putnam Hospital Center
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One-Eighty Place and the most unlike its peers is Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$70,126Arts & Culture$13,500Health$1,700Philanthropy$1,500Employment$1,000Community Improvement$1,000Housing & Shelter$500
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 The Discovery Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds Black River Good Neighbor Services ↗
- Who funds Sail Beyond Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds Upper Valley Haven ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK ↗
- Who funds Enfield Village Association ↗
- Who funds My Friend Abby Inc ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 WENDELL & GINGER SMITH FOUNDATION XXX20011 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Upper Valley Haven — 27% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
05Through 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: Enfield Village Association.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311699752 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 Enfield Village Association, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% 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.
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Find your warmest path to Wendell & Ginger Smith Foundation Xxx20011 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.
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The camps
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By state
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