· Private foundation
Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 148 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 148 organizations, $10M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k104 grants · $413k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCTHE RAMS CLUB | $2,008,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL SEAN M HEALEY AND AMG CENTER FOR ALS | $1,350,000 |
| ANSWER ALS | $1,051,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $925,000 |
| ECU HEALTH FOUNDATION | $510,000 |
| PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $289,534 |
| ACES FOR AUTISM | $272,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COASTAL PLAIN | $229,500 |
| ST JAMES UNITED METHODIST | $209,278 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $200,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $162,500 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $153,500 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $128,850 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $101,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $848k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
296 repeat relationships — 177 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +79%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH7× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +384%- PCPitt Community College Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +29% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k
- AOARTS OF THE PAMLICOone grant, 2019 · $155k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $137k
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.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To promote and educate to ensure a socially responsible and profitable NC Pork Industry.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reflower. 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 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
312 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. 312 of the 592 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Pitt Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANSWER ALS ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds The Greenville Community Shelters ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ACES FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Pitt County INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORIC BATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Family Violence Prevention ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PITT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COVENANT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Barnhill Family Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · James J & Mamie Richardson Perkins Memorial Fund - C/O Bank of America · John William Pope Foundation · Mildred Sheffield Wells Char Trust · Southern Bank 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 Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% 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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