· Private foundation
Dick Smith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY22–22, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 66 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 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia College ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dick Smith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dick Smith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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