· Private foundation
James & Linda Smith 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| church of divine man | $20,000 |
| Homage Senior Services | $6,700 |
| world wildlife fund | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Durham Academy | $5,000 |
| Independent Animal Rescue | $4,000 |
| Carolina Tiger Rescue | $4,000 |
| Paws4ever | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Swing it to End it | $2,500 |
| Shelburne Farms | $2,000 |
| Carolla Wild Horse Fund | $1,200 |
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 (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of James & Linda Smith Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- FSFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA6× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +24%
- NRNEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +58%
- HSHumane Society of Montgomery County7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CMChildren's Museum of Blacksburgone grant, 2017 · $15k
- GPGODS PIT CREW INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The humane societys misison is to prevent cruelty and suffering among dogs and cats through rescue, adoption, and education.
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
The mission of mountain view humane is to end pet overpopulation in southwest virginia and southern west virginia by providing safe, affordable spay/neuter services and vaccine clinics for the community.
We are on a mission to change lives by connecting pets and people. We dothis through innovative programs that inspire and have impact beyond ourborders. We envision a compassionate community where all animals arerecognized for their…
Treatment and rehabilitation of ill or injured wild animals and educational programs for various environmental issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New River Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 36 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
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 FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Montgomery County ↗
- Who funds Free Clinic of the New River Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds Independent Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA TIGER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Swing It To End It Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACKSBURG VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds HOPE TO WALK INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY INTERFAITH CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COROLLA WILD HORSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds C A R E dba The John 3 16 Center ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LYRIC COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Celanese Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of the New River Valley Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 James & Linda Smith Charitable Trust 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.
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
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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