· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLENNER MEMORY CARE | $35,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CENTER | $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 |
| RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION (RAF) | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| CANCER WELLNESS FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AL | $13,000 |
| 4 PAWS 4 LIFE RESCUE | $10,000 |
| MONTGOMERY AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BILL MYERS BACKPACK PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
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
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 47 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jay L Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay L Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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