· Public charity
Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start Inc
Our mission is to advance and advocate for a high quality, comprehensive, accountable system of care and education for children 0-5, which builds a foundation leading to a productive and successful life.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $800
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $965k
- $250k+1 grant · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FVW OPPORTUNITY | $264,180 |
| FRANKLIN CO SCHOOLS | $228,160 |
| ABC ADVENTURES INC | $149,520 |
| CHILDREN'S ARK CLC | $149,420 |
| DREAM WORLD ACADEMY | $136,140 |
| GRANVILLE HEALTH SYSTEMS | $110,914 |
| GRANVILLE CO SCHOOLS | $110,686 |
| VANCE CO COOP EXT | $79,743 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,052 |
| VANCE CO SCHOOLS | $18,600 |
| IMAGINATION STATION | $800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFranklin-Vance-Warren Opportunity5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M
- CACHILDREN'S ARK CLC5× · 2021–2025 · $759k
Funded once
- VEVARIOUS ENTITIES UNDER 5000one grant, 2021 · $31k
- NNNAZIR & NAZIYA'S CLUBHOUSEone grant, 2022 · $750
- LPLITTLE PAWS LEARNING CTRone grant, 2022 · $750
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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