· Private foundation
Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $254k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $23,500 |
| HOPE STREET | $20,000 |
| MY VILLAGE PROJECT | $17,500 |
| DELORES BARR WEAVER POLICY CENTER | $17,500 |
| OPERATION NEW HOPE | $17,500 |
| CITY YEAR JACKSONVILLE | $17,500 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $17,500 |
| UNIFIED COMMUNITY INVESTORS | $17,500 |
| THE TRIBUTARY | $17,000 |
| FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| CUMMER MUSEUM | $16,500 |
| HAVEN RETREATS | $15,000 |
| RIVER CITY CHURCH | $13,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% 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 +123% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- DIDBWPC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +28%
CITY YEAR INC5× · 2021–2025 · $69k · revenue +4%- HSHOPE STREET INC DBA HOPE & HEALING JAX4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- JPJACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +25%
- CFCENTER FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +127%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $9k
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.
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
The mission is to create a community-based network that develops coordinates and provides quality education accessible health care youth development programs opportunities for employment and safe neighborhoods for children and families…
The Organization's mission is to empower families in making their transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.
Our mission is to enhance the efforts of florida pregnancy resource organizations that deliver wellness services to qualifying women, and that provide emotional and material support to pregnant women in need, enabling them to carry their…
The florida network of youth & family services is a statewide association of agencies that works to prevent juvenile delinquency and child abuse through the strengthening of youth and families.
Jones Alternative provides Therapeutic Residential Group Home services to female victims ofsexual trauma, including molestation, rape, incest, and human trafficking, who are underthe care of the Florida Department of Children and Families…
A retreat program that enables families who are experiencing serious illness or crisis to regain strength, mend spirits and just be families and kids again.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
To improve florida's response to child abuse by supporting the development, growth and continuation of the children's advocacy centers around florida.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Jacksonville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Families of Slain Children Incorporated. 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 59 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 DBWPC INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET INC DBA HOPE & HEALING JAX ↗
- Who funds SEAMARK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST FLORIDA JOURNALISM COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOGA 4 CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Operation New Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Haven Retreats Inc ↗
- Who funds 904WARD INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FSS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MY VILLAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ONEJAX INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Harden Family Foundation · Stellar Foundation · The Haskell Foundation · The Gate Foundation Inc · Jb 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 Emily Balz Smith 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- My Village Project Inc — 81% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- Operation New Hope Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dbwpc Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dont Miss a Beat Inc — 3% of income from government
- Haven Retreats Inc — 0% of income from government
- Leadership Jacksonville Inc — 0% 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.