· Private foundation
G Gregory 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 G Gregory Smith Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year G Gregory Smith Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $307k. 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTOVER CHURCH | $100,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $61,170 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| SCOTT'S HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $5,000 |
| RESTORATION PLACE COUNSELING | $5,000 |
| JUSTICE & MERCY INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CALDWELL ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ROOM AT THE INN | $2,500 |
| GREENSBORO PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| ONE COLLECTIVE | $2,500 |
| BSF INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| BACKPACK BEGINNINGS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GUGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY5× · 2017–2023 · $166k · revenue +38%
- TPTHE PREGNANCY NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +194%
- RPRESTORATION PLACE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- RCResourcing Christian Education Internationalone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +20%
- IITEAMSone grant, 2017 · $3k
- RUREFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Room At the Inn Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE PREGNANCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION PLACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ONE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BSF INTERNATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds THE POWER OF PLAY CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
- Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR AN EARLIER BREAST CANCER TEST 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: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 G Gregory 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.
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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