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Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$2.3MArts & Culture$409kHuman Services$188kCivil Rights$75kRecreation & Sports$56kPhilanthropy$55kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$10kEnvironment$5kOther$638k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $222k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$151,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION$70,580
THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC$32,500
AUSTIN COLLEGE$30,000
CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC$20,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES$15,000
DANGBERG HOME RANCH$13,000
FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
MEFIYI FOUNDATION$8,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY$7,500
STAGE WEST THEATRE$7,500
VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION INC$7,500
DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,164
CARSON VALLEY ARTS INSTITUTE$7,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TAHOE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $5k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 16%TAHOE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $5k → 14%TAHOE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $15k → 11%MOMMIES IN NEED INC: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $13k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $13k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $13k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $13k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $13k → 11%WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC: $5k → 11%WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC: $5k → 11%WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 39 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
6

Total granted

$3.7M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+186%

Still filing today

72%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +35%
  • AC
    AUSTIN COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FORT WORTH
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • FW
    FORT WORTH ISD
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • TB
    TEXAS BALLET THEATER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +186%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Midland Festival Ballet

Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.

Arts & Culture
2
The Dallas Opera

The Dallas Opera connects local and global audiences through world-class performances of both new and traditional works. We sing stories for all generations, harmonizing entertainment, education, and artistry.

Arts & Culture
3
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

4
Ballet Arts Foundation

Ballet tucson is dedicated to bringing iconic, world-class dance performances and rising star artists to tucson and to sharing explorative experiences that inspire hope and excitement in our community.

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas Childrens Theater Inc

The mission of dallas children's theater is to inspire young people to creative and productive lives through the art of theater.to give rise to inspiring theater, dallas children's theater:- creates and produces innovative professional…

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
7
Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc

To serve as a permanent home to major arts organizations of fort worth and as a premier venue for touring attractions and to promulgate arts education.

Arts & Culture
8
Dallas Theater Center

Dtc will engage, entertain, and inspire our diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living and by producing plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and…

Arts & Culture
9
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
10
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
11
Dallas Wind Symphony

The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…

Arts & Culture
12
The Fresno Philharmonic Association

The mission of the Fresno Philharmonic is to enrich the lives of Central San Joaquin Valley residents through inspiring performances of orchestral music. We are an essential and collaborative member of a vibrant arts scene which unites,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Mimir Chamber Music Festival. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr10%44%35–55yr13%37%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
15%
1,888/12,291

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.

04the grantee network

31 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
28/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $1,332,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $403,680 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Reno FoundationAUSTIN COLLEGE — $270,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGETHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC — $135,172 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC+3 more — $122,500 · Education+3 moreDOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $234,827 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL…DANGBERG HOME RANCH — $75,499 · OtherDANGBERG HOME RANCHCASSATA HIGH SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherCASSATA HIGH SCHOOLDOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $46,046 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLIC…CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS COUNCIL — $45,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS…THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherTHE FORT WORTH PUBLIC…CARSON VALLEY ARTS INSTITUTE — $33,000 · OtherTHE WARM PLACE — $30,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $45,000 · OtherTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGH…+11 more — $78,132 · Other+11 moreSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC — $67,500 · Arts & CultureSTAGE WEST T…Van Cliburn Foundation Inc — $65,000 · Arts & CultureVan Cliburn …FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH S…FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $60,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH M…CASA MANANA INC — $42,500 · Arts & CultureCASA MANANA …Mimir Chamber Music Festival — $33,500 · Arts & CultureMimir Chambe…Fort Worth Opera Association Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFort Worth O…AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureAMPHIBIAN PR…Carson Valley Arts Council — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $122,500 · Human ServicesMOMMIES IN NEED — $25,000 · Human ServicesWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTahoe Youth and Family Services — $15,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $74,500 · Civil RightsMEFIYI — $55,500 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH — $55,323 · Philanthropy
Education$2,263,352Other$697,504Arts & Culture$409,000Human Services$187,500Civil Rights$74,500Recreation & Sports$55,500Philanthropy$55,323

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $1,332,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $403,680 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE — $270,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC — $135,172 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $122,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $74,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC — $67,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc — $65,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY — $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEFIYI — $55,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH — $55,323 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MANANA INC — $42,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMimir Chamber Music Festival — $33,500 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC — $22,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarson Valley Arts Council — $17,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetWHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTahoe Youth and Family Services — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBallet Concerto Inc — $10,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF FORT WORTH INCORPORATED — $4,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation
  • Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES
  • Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC
  • Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds STAGE WEST THEATRE FORMERLY ALLIED THEATRE GROUP INC
  • Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc
  • Who funds FORT WORTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY
  • Who funds MEFIYI
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH
  • Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY
  • Who funds CASA MANANA INC
  • Who funds THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Mimir Chamber Music Festival
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Fort Worth Opera Association Inc
  • Who funds MOMMIES IN NEED
  • Who funds AMPHIBIAN PRODUCTIONS INC
  • Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Carson Valley Arts Council
  • Who funds WHAT ABOUT REMEMBERING ME CENTER INC
  • Who funds Tahoe Youth and Family Services
  • Who funds Ballet Concerto Inc
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY
  • Who funds TEXAS BALLET THEATER 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.

Sid W Richardson FoundationTX42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Fifth Avenue Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · William E Scott 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 Frances C and William P Smallwood 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Frances C and William P Smallwood 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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