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Guilford Houston Smith Jr Charitable Trust

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.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$835kHealth$394kRecreation & Sports$94kReligion$13k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
$22,997
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$28,443
ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUNDATION INC$28,443
PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN$24,207
ALABAMA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHES$22,997
ALABAMA'S SPECIAL CAMP FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAMP ASCCA$8,472
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$7,262
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TUSKEGEE ALABAMA$1,210
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$1.3M
$0

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PH
    PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +28%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +43%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +145%

Funded once

    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.

    03Its field
    03the grantee network

    4 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. 4 of the 7 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/4
    Grantees still filing
    3/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    THE SALVATION ARMY: $314,125 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $267,343 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDRENALABAMA'S SPECIAL CAMP FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAMP ASCCA: $93,568 · OtherALABAMA'S SPECIAL CAMP FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAMP ASCCA+1 more: $13,368 · OtherALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $314,125 · HealthALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $80,203 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI…ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $253,976 · Human ServicesALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOU…
    Other$688,404Health$394,328Human Services$253,976

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND: $314,125 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $267,343 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $253,976 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $80,203 over 9y, 0.0% of budget
    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 ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
    • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
    • Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
    • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Guilford Houston Smith Jr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guilford Houston Smith Jr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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