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J M Smith Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k78 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $368k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILE MEALS | $28,200 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $28,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $26,000 |
| CALVARY HMONG ALLIANCE CHURCH - SPARTANBURG | $17,400 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SPARTANBURG | $17,000 |
| LAKE BOWEN BAPTIST CHURCH | $14,400 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT | $14,274 |
| DRAKE RAYDEN FOUNDATION - SIMPSONVILLE | $14,000 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE CHURCH OF GOD | $14,000 |
| WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| KINGS PLAYERS YOUTH MINISTRY | $14,000 |
| MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH | $14,000 |
| ST FRANCIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $14,000 |
| WOODRUFF CHURCH OF GOD | $14,000 |
| NORTHWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH | $14,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
521 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2026, 440 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $393k · revenue +9%
- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $361k · revenue +26%
- NDNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2017–2022 · $355k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- FCFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INCone grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue -14% · 36% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- FCFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INCone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
A Baptist ministry for children and families of South Carolina that provides residential care for children in need along with counseling, educational, and referral services while developing and strengthening positive relationships in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Let Me Play. 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 43 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
323 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 323 of the 931 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIDS UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SCSDB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COACHES 4 CHARACTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING ↗
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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
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 J M Smith Foundation 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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