· Private foundation
George G & Alva Hudson Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $29,000 |
| HILLSBORO LIONS CLUB | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HILL COUNTY | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| LAKE WHITNEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $11,500 |
| HILL COUNTY PAW PALS | $6,500 |
| HILL COUNTY KIDS | $4,000 |
| HUBBARD GARDEN CLUB | $2,000 |
| MISSION HILLSBORO MEDICAL CLINIS | $500 |
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 (FY24–24, $9k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of George G & Alva Hudson Smith Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 89%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +144% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF HILLSBORO CITY LIBRARY3× · 2018–2024 · $173k · revenue ×14
- LWLAKE WHITNEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +14%
- HCHILL COUNTY PAW PALS4× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB HILL COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $37k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILL COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HIHILLSBORO INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INCgraduated2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +57% · 31% of their budget
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.
Providing fire protection and medical assistance to residents in the hunt, texas community
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and promote the history, cultural arts, and past traditions of weslaco, texas, and its surrounding region.
None
Preservation of historical sites and objects
Volunteer fire department serving hillsboro, wv and surrounding areas
To discover, collect and promote the preservation of lewisville history and preserve its historical landmarks
Preserving historical aircraft
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
Volunteer fire department
To raise funds for capital projects undertaken by the Wimberley Village Library
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 52 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 FRIENDS OF HILLSBORO CITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MISSION HILLSBORO MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WHITNEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HILLSBORO INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTY PAW PALS ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Whitney Arts Association ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WACO ↗
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: The Dorothy Gaines Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George G & Alva Hudson Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George G & Alva Hudson Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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