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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| LOVE INC | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $12,000 |
| THE MAIL BOX CLUB | $10,000 |
| KALAMAZOO GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| BIG CREEK MISSIONS | $9,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $9,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI | $9,000 |
| FILTERS OF HOPE | $9,000 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $8,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHRISTIAN SW MICH | $8,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
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
- 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Beechpoint Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 29 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Bill & Lois 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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