How much did J M SMITH FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of J M SMITH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

districtcatcatholic diocesecalvary biblenrashrinepaul apostle

2020

catholicbroadcastingbridge christianadventistparishpointchristian fellowship

2021

radiokitchenpalosministrieshopeparagouldcancer

2022

adult teenteen challengegardenministriespalosvalleyministry

2023

unrestricedhandchristian churchjdrflivingunaministry

2025

quogue

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k84 grants · $195k
$10k–50k24 grants · $341k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$982k

Total assets

Largest grants

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT$17,009
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SPARTANBURG$17,000
MAKE-A-WISH SOUTH CAROLINA$16,000
MOBILE MEALS$16,000
WOODRUFF CHURCH OF GOD$14,500
NORTHWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH$14,000
LAKE BOWEN BAPTIST CHURCH$14,000
WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$14,000
CHURCH AT MILL$14,000
FREEDOM HOUSE CHURCH OF GOD$14,000
BROWNS CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH$14,000
NEW FAITH INTERNATIONAL CHURCH$14,000
LYMAN METHODIST CHURCH$14,000
MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH$14,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 423 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

423 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 352 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

423

348

Total granted

$12M

$952k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+37%

Still filing today

29%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

SC
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2023 · $334k · revenue +200%
WU
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $301k · revenue +18%
CONVERSE COLLEGE
6× · 2018–2023 · $273k · revenue +54%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue -7% · 36% of their budget
FB
FIRST BAPTIST SPARTANBURG
one grant, 2018 · $41k
I
IPTAY
one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Columbia College

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.

Education

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

Greensboro College

An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.

Education

Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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Shorter University

Shorter University is a private Christian non-profit comprehensive liberal arts institution.

Education

Houghton University

A nationally ranked christian university founded by the wesleyan church.

Education

Southern Bancorp Capital Partners

Creating economic opportunities in distressed rural communities.

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Charlotte Christian School

Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning into their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.

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Schreiner University

Schreiner university offers a personalized, integrated education that prepares its students for meaningful work and purposeful lives in a changing global society.

Education

Conway Hospital Community Services

Provides health care services in conjunction with conway hospital, inc.

Health

South Carolina Council On

Providing actionable research, supporting industry clusters, and furthering education and workforce development.

Community Improvement

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%3/343

the rest of the field

10%

2,921/28,446

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.

05the grantee network

221 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

209/221

Grantees still filing

160/221

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,788,993Education$1,296,861Housing & Shelter$552,000Philanthropy$385,284Arts & Culture$352,280Human Services$223,005Youth Development$172,723

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.

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.

Spartanburg County FoundationSC100× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Betty & James K Stone 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KETO HOPE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810784807 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KETO HOPE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to J M Smith Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J M Smith Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

J M SMITH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

221 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J M Smith Foundation?

More from the funding graph

J M SMITH FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

221 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J M Smith Foundation?

More from the funding graph