· Private foundation
Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $949k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WELVISTA INC | $40,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| HEALTHY LEARNERS - ALLENDALE | $35,000 |
| CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA HABITAT FOR | $35,000 |
| INTREPID FALLEN HERO'S FUND | $35,000 |
| SISTERCARE INC | $30,000 |
| CAMP HAPPY DAYS | $30,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUDNATION | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA | $30,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATI | $25,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE FUND INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
48 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +38%- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +32%
- SISISTERCARE INC3× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PHPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +68%
- HCHistoric Columbia Foundationone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -7%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +145%
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.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves in the Upstate. We make connections between grateful patients, corporate partners, visionary organizations, and individuals of all ages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Columbia International University. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 70 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds WELVISTA ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL ASSISTED LIFE SERVI ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Historic Columbia Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
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: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Bonner Family Private Foundation · Baker and Baker Foundation Inc · Cw and Dorothy G Love Foundation · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · Davis Family Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Dorothy D Smith Charitable 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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