· Private foundation
George & Sandra Smart Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Compassion International | $161,056 |
| The Chapel Medina | $136,000 |
| Compassion Delivered | $12,500 |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $10,000 |
| Cru | $7,400 |
| Pregnancy Choices | $5,000 |
| Total Living Center | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Passion City Church | $3,500 |
| Columbus Dream Center | $2,500 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,000 |
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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTotal Living Center6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +115%
- CCCUPS CAFE INC5× · 2018–2023 · $29k · revenue +220%
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP3× · 2023–2025 · $22k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- SNSTADIA NEW CHURCH STRATEGIESone grant, 2018 · $30k
- EMEcuador Missionone grant, 2017 · $20k
- VCVarious Charitiesone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Conducts daily devotional services and sponsors religious projects in developing countries.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
The purpose of the organization is to share the passionate love of god the father throughout the world, his salvation through his son, the lord jesus christ, and to lead people to an experience with the holy spirit and his power. our…
Religious
United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
Jesus food is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a fully nutritious meal everyday to starving children of all ages around the world. we also believe that by bringing them into a relationship with jesus christ, and…
Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…
Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 41 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.
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Total Living Center ↗
- Who funds CUPS CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Whispering Grace Horses ↗
- Who funds Compassion Delivered Inc ↗
- Who funds BRANCHES WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stark Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George & Sandra Smart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George & Sandra Smart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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