· Private foundation
Dick Smith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP COLE | $50,000 |
| FAMILY SHELTER | $24,000 |
| BAPTIST CONVENTION OF NEW ENGLAND | $18,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA | $13,000 |
| JUBILEE ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH-UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC | $3,840 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL | $3,600 |
| TRACY'S CAMP | $3,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- JAJubilee Academy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +803%
- HNHomeless No More Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +16%
- ALAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $94k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BCBAPTIST CONVENTION OF NEWone grant, 2023 · $18k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Christian Ministries International. 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 62 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 66 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 FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FRONTIER MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION DEVELOPMENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRACY'S CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MARGARET HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBERRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Columbia College ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Wolfe Family Foundation · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · McKesson Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Dick Smith Foundation Inc 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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