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William I Smith Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $590k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $100,000 |
| MANUELITO NAVAJO CHILDRENS HOME INC | $87,000 |
| HEALTH BRIDGES INTERNATIONAL INC | $82,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND OF NEW MEXICO | $81,000 |
| LITTLEDROPS ORPHANAGE FUND | $80,000 |
| PEACE4KIDS | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
| FLOWLOVESYOU FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| IP LAW FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE CENTER ON COLFAX | $8,000 |
| SEATTLE WALDORF SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| EASTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| HIGHLINE ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| URBAN PARTNERS LOS ANGELES | $2,500 |
| WORLD AIDS DAY URBAN PARTNERS LOS ANGELES FUNDRAISER | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $735k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k 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
- HBHEALTH BRIDGES INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $684k · revenue +46%
- P4PEACE 4 KIDS7× · 2019–2025 · $590k · revenue +242%
- CCCHILDREN'S CANCER FUND OF NEW MEXICO8× · 2018–2025 · $538k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CHCOMMONSPIRIT HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +58%
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.
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
An intentionally small community where young people are valued as individuals. A compassionate team of educators approach academic & social-emotional development with the aim of cultivating justice-seeking humans empowered to transform…
The mission of CSWS is to create a space in which our community of children, teachers and families can be an educational team. Collaboratively, we will work to inspire and support curiosity, confidence, empathy, resiliency, and the social…
Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…
We help children discover a way of dealing with life that is realistic, comfortable, and satisfying. Self-confidence is nurtured as children learn to rely on themselves and each other. The noncompetitive environment is one that allows each…
Bright water waldorf school's mission is to cultivate creative minds, capable hands, and compassionate hearts.
Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…
Street Child's vision is a world in which all children are safe, in school and learning. We believe that education is not only a fundamental human right but the surest pathway out of poverty, and that schools should be a site of safety as…
We empower our students to become creative world citizens. Our exceptional multi-lingual program equips our students with outstanding academic skills and proficiency in German English and other elected languages. Our multicultural and…
Educating the whole child, in mind, body and spirit, for a life of continuous learning and meaningful engagement with the world. Washington Waldorf School follows the Waldorf curriculum for students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth…
The Waldorf School of Atlanta develops in its students the will to become life-long learners by fostering in each student the ability to think with clarity, feel with compassion, and act with purpose in the world.
Using Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) and oral communication we prepare deaf and hard-of-hearing children to be self-confident, articulate and academically competitive learners, and engaged community members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Warren Village Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School Pto. 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 29 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 — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 HEALTH BRIDGES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MANUELITO NAVAJO CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOC OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds LittleDrops Orphanage Fund ↗
- Who funds GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGEND COMMUNITY CENTER OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SOUND CIRCLE CENTER FOR ARTS AND ANTHROPOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds URBAN PARTNERS LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds Eastside Community School ↗
- Who funds North Helpline ↗
- Who funds Flowlovesyou Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON BIKES INC ↗
- Who funds THE IP LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Free Software Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School PTO ↗
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: Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 William I Smith Family 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.
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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