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Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation at a glance

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Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$680k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.1MHealth$2.4MPhilanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$569kFood & Nutrition$150kCommunity Improvement$135kInternational$95kReligion$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $600k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$200,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$200,000
ENVISION DALLAS$125,000
CHRIST'S FAMILY CLINIC$75,000
HOPE FARMS$35,000
EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS$30,000
YELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,448
METROCREST SERVICES$450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE FARMS: $35k → 11%HOPE FARMS: $35k → 11%METROCREST SERVICES: $450 → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 24 repeat orgs$510k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
12

Total granted

$7.8M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
0%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +57%
  • TH
    Texas Health Resources
    5× · 2017–2021 · $900k · revenue +53%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHRISTS'S FAMILY CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • S
    SCHOLARSHOT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • CC
    CARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health
2
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
Southwestern Health Resources

To further the missions of utsw and thr on a local, regional and national level through the creation of a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other care providers to deliver healthcare across the continuum and by…

Health
4
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
6
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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7
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Baylor Medical Center at Irving

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Demand Project Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNITED WAY INC: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY INCMETHODIST HEALTH SYSTEMS: $725,000 · OtherMETHODIST HEALTH SYSTEMSMETHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherMETHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER: $350,000 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH & MENTAL RETARDATI…ENVISION DALLAS: $250,000 · OtherENVISION DALLASCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERPOSTON GARDENS: $150,000 · Other+13 more: $326,140 · Other+13 moreSouthern Methodist University: $2,450,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $550,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION+3 more: $107,500 · EducationTexas Health Resources: $900,000 · HealthTexas Health Resou…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATIO…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $140,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RIT…SHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $105,000 · HealthSHARED CHRISTIAN M…CARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $189,465 · PhilanthropyBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FARM INC: $70,000 · Human Services+1 more: $450 · Human ServicesYELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DEMAND PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,401,140Education$3,107,500Health$1,346,000Philanthropy$189,465Human Services$165,450Arts & Culture$45,000Crime & Legal$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern Methodist University: $2,450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $1,000,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetTexas Health Resources: $900,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $189,465 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $105,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHOT: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE DEMAND PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHASE'S PLACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Health Resources ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
  • Who funds CARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds YELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DEMAND PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHASE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds METROCREST SERVICES ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Aileen and Jack P…The Addy FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Women's Foundat…The Moody FoundationLisa and Clay Cooley …Jm Haggar Jr Family F…The Hoglund FoundationTheodore and Beulah B…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX25.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Lisa and Clay Cooley Family Foundation · Jm Haggar Jr Family Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc

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 Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dr Bob & Jean 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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