· Private foundation
Dr Bob & Jean Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ENVISION DALLAS | $125,000 |
| CHRISTS'S FAMILY CLINIC | $75,000 |
| CARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UPLIFT EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| HOPE FARMS | $35,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS | $25,000 |
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $22,435 |
| RETINA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,820 |
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 (FY20–24, $130k) 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 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k 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
Southern Methodist University5× · 2017–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +57%- THTexas Health Resources5× · 2017–2021 · $900k · revenue +53%
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL6× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SSCHOLARSHOTone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +16%
- DCDEDMAN COLLEGE SMUone grant, 2023 · $30k
- SCSHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +49%
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 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.
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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…
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 18% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 36 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 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 BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARRELL CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEMAND PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHASE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
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: 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
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 Dr Bob & Jean Smith 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.
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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