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Jay L Smith Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CENTER | $35,000 |
| GLENNER MEMORY CARE | $35,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT FUND | $35,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BICYCLE CLUB | $15,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| FALLEN OFFICERS FUND OF DOUGLAS COUNTY | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AL | $13,000 |
| RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION (RAF) | $13,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BILL MYERS BACKPACK PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA SENIOR OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HOHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +40%
- SDSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +52%
- 4P4 Paws 4 Life Rescue7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF CITRUS & THE NATURE COAST INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -94%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2024 · $15k
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITY ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
Provide services and support to prevent cruelty and provide shelter to animals
To help stray animals find homes
Rescue Dogs from Alabama
Animal adoption and care
The mission of full circle rescue and sanctuary is to provide assistance to animals in need through rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption. full circle is a 501(c)(3) foster based animal rescue and sanctuary in central alabama, operated by a…
To help strays and unwanted family pets find loving and responsible homes and to educate the public regarding the problem of pet overpopulation and the importance of spaying and neutering their pets.
Rescue of cavalier king charles spaniels in need of reuniting, rehabilitating, and/or rehoming.
Not for profit, literary rescue of dogs
Social services
Our mission is to save dogs from overpopulated shelters and areas across the southern parts of the United States.
Assistance to veterans especially in alabama
To promote responsible pet ownership promote the humane treatment of domestic animals, to place homeless animals, and for the benefit of the community as determined by
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Service Dogs Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brain Injury Association of Colorado. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 47 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 HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds 4 Paws 4 Life Rescue ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BICYCLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITRUS & THE NATURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hobbs Foundation · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jay L Smith Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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