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Willard E Smucker Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$2.0MEducation$980kArts & Culture$910kPhilanthropy$717kHuman Services$634kHealth$620kReligion$442kFood & Nutrition$320kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $711k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$609k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orrville Area United Way$300,000
Sacred Heart Foundation$50,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Licking & Perry County$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
DePauw University Rector Scholarship Endowment$25,000
Giving Voice Initiative$25,000
Chautauqua Institution$25,000
Naples Zoo$25,000
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens$25,000
Drury University$25,000
Naples Botanical Garden$25,000
First Church of Christ Scientist Chagrin Falls Ohio$23,758
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Twelveacres Inc: $10k → 8%TWELVE ACRES: $10k → 8%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%TWELVE ACRES: $10k → 8%TWELVE ACRES: $10k → 8%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%TWELVE ACRES: $10k → 8%Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $20k → 7%Twelve Acres Inc: $10k → 8%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $20k → 7%ONE EIGHTY: $11k → 10%OneEighty: $10k → 10%OneEighty: $10k → 10%ONE EIGHTY: $8k → 10%ONE EIGHTY: $5k → 10%ONE EIGHTY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
MO
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 82 repeat orgs$632k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
12

Total granted

$6.4M
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

54%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $364k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +8%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $307k · revenue +44%
  • LM
    LICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +213%
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -44%
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
6
Augustana College

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…

Education
7
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Lafayette General Health System Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
43/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC: $307,272 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNT…ORRVILLE UNITED WAY INC: $300,000 · OtherORRVILLE UNITED WAY INCFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $133,569 · OtherSARATOGA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $120,000 · OtherArden Wood Benevolent Association: $110,000 · OtherChestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $120,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $180,000 · OtherAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK+63 more: $1,977,795 · Other+63 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,580,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AM…+1 more: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSTAN HYWET H…CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCHAUTAUQUA I…LONGYEAR FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Arts & CultureLONGYEAR FOU…Carmel Bach Festival Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCarmel Bach …MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMAGICAL THEA…ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $71,491 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES…GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGIVING VOICE…MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $44,500 · Arts & CultureDrury University: $160,000 · EducationDrury Uni…OLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $120,000 · EducationOLD TRAIL…MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC: $120,000 · EducationMONTESSOR…DePauw University: $85,000 · EducationDePauw Un…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $73,625 · EducationWALLIN ED…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationTEXAS CHR…LICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $191,772 · HealthSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthGLENMONT: $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $17,884 · HealthBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $16,500 · HealthAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $245,000 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $122,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,024 · PhilanthropyCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $140,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $82,500 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $30,000 · Environment
Other$3,248,636Youth Development$1,614,500Arts & Culture$845,991Education$613,625Health$446,156Philanthropy$427,024Environment$252,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,580,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LICKING & PERRY COUNTIES INC: $307,272 over 6y, 11% of budgetAKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLICKING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $191,772 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDrury University: $160,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAN HYWET HALL & GARDENS INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: $140,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $133,569 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $122,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOLD TRAIL SCHOOL: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLONGYEAR FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetChestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSARATOGA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $120,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $87,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY: $85,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetDePauw University: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $82,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $73,625 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $71,491 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTWELVEACRES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING VOICE INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetGLENMONT: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetONEEIGHTY INC: $48,838 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRELIEF NURSERY INC: $34,884 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $34,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services: $33,286 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWAYNE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetORRVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetORRVILLE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC INC: $20,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $17,884 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Alzheimer's Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NETWORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC ↗
  • 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 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds GLENMONT ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Wayne County Communit…Akron Community Found…R & M Clark Family Fo…Ralph R and Grace B J…Seaman Family Foundat…The Isabel FoundationDonald & Alice Noble …Tenacre FoundationThe Westfield Insuran…Firstenergy FoundationMueller Hoisel Wanger…Gar Foundation
Wayne County Community FoundationOH23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Willard E Smucker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willard E Smucker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Willard E Smucker 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.

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 106 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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