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Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$4,013,983
Largest grant, FY2021
$4,013,983
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$4.0M100%
FY202015$194k7%
FY201915$183kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Religion$4.1MEducation$279kHealth$21kEmployment$20kHuman Services$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Highground Advisors$4,013,9831n/a
Dallas Baptist University$200,00020%
East Texas Baptist University$50,00020%
Woodland Heights Baptist Church$25,0002n/a
Home Builders Institute$20,00020%
Baylor University$15,00020%
Texas Baptist Men Inc$15,0002n/a
Texas Builders Foundation$10,00024%
Spaulding for Children$10,00020%
Hawaii Baptist Academy$4,0002n/a
Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Highground Advisors$4,013,9831n/a
Dallas Baptist University$200,00020%
East Texas Baptist University$50,00020%
Woodland Heights Baptist Church$25,0002n/a
Home Builders Institute$20,00020%
Baylor University$15,00020%
Texas Baptist Men Inc$15,0002n/a
Texas Builders Foundation$10,00024%
Spaulding for Children$10,00020%
Hawaii Baptist Academy$4,0002n/a
American Bible Society$2,00020%
Antioch Ministries International$1,5002n/a
American Heart Association Inc$1,00020%
Jews for Jesus$5001n/a
Richland Hills Baptist Church$2001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDallas Baptist University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEast Texas Baptist University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHome Builders Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Builders Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSpaulding for Children: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation

How much does Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation give?
Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $4,013,983 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (92%), Education (6%), Health (0%).
Who are Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Highground Advisors ($4.0M), Dallas Baptist University ($200k), East Texas Baptist University ($50k).
Does Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation based?
Herman & Patsy Smith Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 17 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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