· Private foundation
Bill & Lois Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $44,000 |
| CAMP BEECHPOINT INC | $42,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELICAL ASSOC | $25,000 |
| LEAD INC | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| LOVE INC | $13,000 |
| LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $12,000 |
| KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| THE MAIL BOX CLUB | $10,000 |
| FILTERS OF HOPE | $9,000 |
| BIG CREEK MISSIONS | $9,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI | $9,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $9,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHRISTIAN SW MICH | $8,000 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 30%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MAILBOX CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +213%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +30%
Compassion International Incorporated5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SFSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHRISTIAN SW MICHone grant, 2024 · $8k
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BCBIBLICAL COUNSELING MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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.
Christian publishing company
Provide inspirational programming in various languages domestically and abroad via satellite, cable, internet, radio local am, fm and television mediums.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Our Mission is to provide Bible literature free of charge to men, women, and children worldwide for the purpose of assisting them in studying the Bible.
Religious corp, charitable, educational and cultural, conduct all activities relate to publishingchristian literature
Purpose is sending individuals around the world to win souls to jesus christ by preaching the gospel evangelism.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Our mission is to establish and strengthen cbmc ministries at the national and regional levels across the globe as they engage the marketplace with the gospel of jesus christ and partner with men and women in transformative discipleship…
Scripture publishing products
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
To diffuse the word of god as contained in the bible, and to promote the knowledge and understanding of this word through various forms of media, principally the printed word, with the aim of deepening the spiritual lives of people.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CAMP BEECHPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE TRACTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONAL KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds BIBLE VISUALS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FINISTERRE VISION ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill & Lois Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill & Lois Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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