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Carolyn Smith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
162
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$4.4MHuman Services$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.0MArts & Culture$741kEnvironment$554kYouth Development$552kEducation$542kOther$0
02FY2024 · 162 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k91 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $360k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$603k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTE$360,000
CURE SAN FILIPPO FOUNDATION$200,000
MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER$200,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$100,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
INSPIRITUS INC$100,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$100,000
GALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER$95,000
ONE GENERATION AWAY$75,000
CORNER TO CORNER$75,000
EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION$62,500
ABE'S GARDEN$60,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CTR OF NASHVILLE$60,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MID TN$60,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%GALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER: $95k → 8%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%GALLATIN CARES: $30k → 8%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%GALLATIN CARES: $30k → 8%CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%GALLATIN CARES: $30k → 8%GALLATIN CARES: $20k → 8%GALLATIN CARES: $20k → 8%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $15k → 8%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $15k → 8%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $15k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $15k → 8%CORNER TO CORNER: $75k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $65k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $50k → 14%GALLATIN CARES: $10k → 8%CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE: $10k → 8%MID-CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 14%MID-CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 14%MID-CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 14%MID-CUMBERLAND MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $10k → 14%ST LUKES COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 14%WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $10k → 14%HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOC: $20k → 8%HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOC: $10k → 8%HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOC: $10k → 8%HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOC: $10k → 8%HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOC: $10k → 8%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $50k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $40k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $40k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $25k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $23k → 14%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $20k → 14%THE STORE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF MIDDLE TN: $15k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TN: $15k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH MIDDLE TN: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
IA
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 164 repeat orgs$794k to everyone else

164 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164
45

Total granted

$12M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+36%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $418k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +110%
  • CS
    Cure Sanfilippo Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $550k · revenue +35%
  • MA
    MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $480k · revenue ×24 · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • EC
    EVERY CURE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue ×22
  • A
    ANCORA
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • MC
    MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S
    one grant, 2017 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
2
Park Center Inc

Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…

Employment
3
Nashvillehealth

Nashvillehealth creates a culture of health and wellbeing by serving as a convener to open dialogue, aligning resources and building smart strategic partnerships to create a plan for health unique to nashvilles needs.

Health
4
The Family Center Inc

Raising resilience tennessee's (formerly known as the family center, inc.) mission is breaking multigenerational cycles of childhood trauma and our vision is a resilient community where all children thrive.

Human Services
5
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
6
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
7
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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8
Needlink Nashville

Provide needy families and individuals with rent and utilities assistance in order to prevent their eviction or termination of utility services. also provide food and other assistance to needy families and individuals.

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9
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
10
The Refuge Center for Counseling Inc

The refuge center exists to offer excellent, accessible and affordable mental and emotional healthcare service in support of a transformational impact on communities. in carrying out this mission, the staff and board of directors strive to…

Human Services
11
Presbyterian Medical Care Corp

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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12
Michael Dunn Center

To empower individuals living with disabilities and challenges to gain independence

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Saving Stevie. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr14%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%48%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr14%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/142
the rest of the field
13%
2,964/23,380

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.

04the grantee network

138 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. 138 of the 239 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/138
Grantees still filing
95/138
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDE — $500,000 · OtherST JUDESECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $490,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKUNC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $300,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN — $220,000 · Other+132 more — $4,986,850 · Other+132 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center — $1,400,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Med…Cure Sanfilippo Foundation — $550,000 · HealthCure Sanfilippo Foundatio…SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $190,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $135,000 · HealthHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION — $122,500 · HealthEVERY CURE INC — $100,000 · Health+9 more — $320,000 · Health+9 moreCorner To Corner — $197,500 · Human ServicesCorner To Co…MOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $182,500 · Human ServicesMOTHER TO MO…A SOLDIERS CHILD INC — $155,000 · Human ServicesA SOLDIERS C…GALLATIN CARES — $145,000 · Human ServicesGALLATIN CAR…GALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesGALLATIN DAY…CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN ARE…MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY — $80,000 · Human ServicesMID-CUMBERLA…CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $77,500 · Human ServicesCHARLES HOUS…HENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Human Services+14 more — $338,500 · Human Services+14 moreMONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $480,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony Association — $55,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLET — $22,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $22,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $335,000 · Housing & ShelterABE'S GARDEN — $152,500 · Housing & ShelterOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC — $55,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION — $155,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationDAYBREAK ARTS — $30,000 · EducationGlobal Education Center — $25,000 · EducationPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES — $18,500 · EducationBook Em — $17,500 · EducationPERSIST NASHVILLE — $16,000 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · EducationHARPETH CONSERVANCY — $122,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $95,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $27,500 · EnvironmentCUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $18,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Environment
Other$6,496,850Health$2,817,500Human Services$1,421,000Arts & Culture$604,500Housing & Shelter$565,000Education$382,000Environment$293,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $1,400,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCure Sanfilippo Foundation — $550,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetMONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $480,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $335,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN — $220,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCorner To Corner — $197,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $190,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $182,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC — $155,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE — $155,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION — $155,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetABE'S GARDEN — $152,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGALLATIN CARES — $145,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY — $142,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY — $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION — $122,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY — $122,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMONROE HARDING INC — $112,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC — $105,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetEVERY CURE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALVUS CENTER INC — $85,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $82,500 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $80,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetMID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $77,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLAMBSCROFT MINISTRIES INC DBA THE COOKERY — $70,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHENDERSONVILLE SAMARITAN ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN TABLE OF NASHVILLE INC — $55,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $52,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMNER COUNTY — $52,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Place for Animals — $50,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetCIVIC DESIGN CENTER — $47,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetASHLEYS PLACE-SUMNER CHILD ADVOCACY — $47,500 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
  • Who funds Corner To Corner ↗
  • Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER TO MOTHER INC ↗
  • Who funds A SOLDIERS CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds ABE'S GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds GALLATIN CARES ↗
  • Who funds TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MONROE HARDING INC ↗
  • Who funds GALLATIN DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERY CURE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SALVUS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationThe Community Foundat…United Way of Middle …Dorothy Cate and Thom…Joe C Davis FoundationNashville Predators F…The Healing Trust For…Dettwiller FoundationThe Steven & Laurie E…Louie M & Betty M Phi…
Memorial Foundation IncTN122.6× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Dettwiller Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn

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 Carolyn Smith 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
45report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Carolyn Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carolyn Smith 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 239 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home