· Private foundation
James R Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clear Water Foundation | $210,000 |
| Baptists on Mission | $25,000 |
| United Way of Asheville Buncombe Co | $25,000 |
| Presbyterian Church USA | $25,000 |
| VTC School of Medicine | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| CFWNC | $15,000 |
| First Scots Presbyterian Church | $12,000 |
| Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity | $11,000 |
| The Preservation Society of Charles | $11,000 |
| Trident Technical College Foundatio | $10,000 |
| Carillon Clinic Foundation | $10,000 |
| Woodberry Forest School | $8,000 |
| Feeding America Southwest Va | $5,000 |
| Bethany Christian Church | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +52%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +35%- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TPThe Preservation Society of Charleston Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +90%
- RXROPER XAVIER SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GFGOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +53%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.
Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.
Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MSI US ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James R Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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