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Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$283k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$23,500
Organizations funded a year
15 to 26
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$4.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$283k36%
FY202426$238k38%
FY202323$209k35%
FY202225$237k24%
FY202126$205k42%
FY202015$132kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$208kEducation$159kHealth$130kArts & Culture$112kReligion$109kYouth Development$84kCommunity Improvement$79kCivil Rights$72kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dbwpc Inc$76,50061%
City Year Inc$69,00050%
Hope Street Inc Dba Hope & Healing Jax$49,50043%
Seamark Ranch Inc$48,78141%
The Orphanetwork$46,80050%
Northeast Florida Journalism Collective Inc$46,50044%
Yoga 4 Change Inc$42,60052%
Mandarin Presbyterian Church$39,0003n/a
River City Church Inc$37,0003n/a
Center for Childrens Rights Inc$32,50023%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dbwpc Inc$76,50061%
City Year Inc$69,00050%
Hope Street Inc Dba Hope & Healing Jax$49,50043%
Seamark Ranch Inc$48,78141%
The Orphanetwork$46,80050%
Northeast Florida Journalism Collective Inc$46,50044%
Yoga 4 Change Inc$42,60052%
Mandarin Presbyterian Church$39,0003n/a
River City Church Inc$37,0003n/a
Center for Childrens Rights Inc$32,50023%
Operation New Hope Inc$32,50020%
Haven Retreats Inc$29,00037%
904ward Inc$28,50041%
Florida Philanthropic Network Inc$27,00060%
Fss Foundation Inc$22,75024%
Riverside Presbyterian Day School Inc$22,5003n/a
Unified Community Investors Inc$20,2002n/a
Mission of Hope Inc$20,0832n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$19,40020%
My Village Project Inc$17,50011%
Jacksonville Public Education Fund Inc$15,00011%
Onejax Inc$11,0002n/a
Center for Central American Empowerment Inc$10,50012%
Williamsburg Community Chapel$8,0001n/a
The Way Free Medical Clinic Inc$5,50021%
Families of Slain Children Incorporated$5,00013%
Rethreaded Inc$5,00010%
The Bolles School$3,23310%
Mission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc$3,00010%
Leadership Jacksonville Inc$3,00010%
Jubilee Justice Inc$3,00010%
Community Foundation Inc$2,7001n/a
Dont Miss A Beat Inc$2,50010%
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc$2,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDbwpc Inc: $76,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCity Year Inc: $69,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHope Street Inc Dba Hope & Healing Jax: $49,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSeamark Ranch Inc: $48,781 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Orphanetwork: $46,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast Florida Journalism Collective Inc: $46,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetYoga 4 Change Inc: $42,600 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Childrens Rights Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetOperation New Hope Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHaven Retreats Inc: $29,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budget904ward Inc: $28,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFlorida Philanthropic Network Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFss Foundation Inc: $22,750 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $19,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMy Village Project Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJacksonville Public Education Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Central American Empowerment Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Way Free Medical Clinic Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFamilies of Slain Children Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRethreaded Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bolles School: $3,233 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Jacksonville Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJubilee Justice Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDont Miss A Beat Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL49.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc

How much does Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc give?
Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $283,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Education (12%), Health (10%).
Who are Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dbwpc Inc ($77k), City Year Inc ($69k), Hope Street Inc Dba Hope & Healing Jax ($50k).
Does Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc, Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc, Dubow Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc based?
Emily Balz Smith Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 59 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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