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Willard E Smucker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $711k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orrville Area United Way | $300,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Licking & Perry County | $50,000 |
| Sacred Heart Foundation | $50,000 |
| Artis Naples | $40,000 |
| Conservancy for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park | $35,000 |
| PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation | $30,000 |
| Licking Memorial Hospital | $27,785 |
| Giving Voice Initiative | $25,000 |
| Chautauqua Institution | $25,000 |
| Drury University | $25,000 |
| Naples Zoo | $25,000 |
| DePauw University Rector Scholarship Endowment | $25,000 |
| Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens | $25,000 |
| Naples Botanical Garden | $25,000 |
| First Church of Christ Scientist Chagrin Falls Ohio | $23,758 |
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 (FY20–25, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 10 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $364k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +8%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $307k · revenue +44%
- LMLICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL6× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SHSACRED HEART FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +213%
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- GGGREATER GOOD CHARITIESone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -44%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Western Reserve Historical Society. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 106 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ORRVILLE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds STAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds TWELVEACRES INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLENMONT ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Wayne County Community Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · R & M Clark Family Foundation · Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · The Isabel Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · Gar 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 Willard E Smucker 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.
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- 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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