How much does Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation give?

Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $1,186,600 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.

What does Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (17%), Education (16%).

Who are Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Make-A-Wish Foundation of America ($103k), Fisher House Foundation Inc ($90k), Sistercare Inc ($85k).

Does Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2021, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Central Carolina Community Foundation, Lipscomb Family Foundation.

Where is Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation based?

Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation is based in SC.

Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation

Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M

Granted FY2021

Grants FY2021

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$862kHuman Services$510kEducation$482kArts & Culture$197kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kReligion$119kPhilanthropy$113kAnimals$85kOther$0

02FY2021 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k46 grants · $949k
$50k–250k4 grants · $230k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	$80,000
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM	$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$50,000
PRISMA HEALTH FOUNDATION	$50,000
WELVISTA INC	$40,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION	$37,500
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA HABITAT FOR	$35,000
INTREPID FALLEN HERO'S FUND	$35,000
HEALTHY LEARNERS - ALLENDALE	$35,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA	$30,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUDNATION	$30,000
CAMP HAPPY DAYS	$30,000
SISTERCARE INC	$30,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY SC GA	$25,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATI	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 48 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+50%

Still filing today

58%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 AMERICA
3× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +38%
FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +32%
SI
SISTERCARE INC
3× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +32%

Funded once

PH
PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +68%
HC
Historic Columbia Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -7%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +145%

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.

04Its field

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.

Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services

The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

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).

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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health

Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health

Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion

Tandem Health Sc

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.

Health

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services

St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/39

Grantees still filing

30/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,082,600Health$327,000Human Services$212,500Philanthropy$138,000Public Benefit$85,000Arts & Culture$80,000Religion$60,000

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.

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.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA40.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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