South Carolina · Private foundation
John I Smith Charities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations John I Smith Charities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $1.5M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $1.6M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $1.4M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presbyterian College | $720,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Furman University | $625,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Davidson College | $541,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenville Tech Foundation Inc | $535,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Public Education Partners Greenville County | $470,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Pendleton Place Inc | $330,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Columbia Theological Seminary | $250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Thornwell | $245,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Taylors Free Medical Clinic Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 1% |
| United Ministries | $215,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John I Smith Charities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · W W Burgiss Charities Inc · Yeargin Foundation
How this is measured
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About John I Smith Charities Inc
- How much does John I Smith Charities Inc give?
- John I Smith Charities Inc reported 44 grants totaling $1,252,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John I Smith Charities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Human Services (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are John I Smith Charities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Presbyterian College ($720k), Furman University ($625k), Davidson College ($541k).
- Does John I Smith Charities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John I Smith Charities Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John I Smith Charities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jolley Foundation, Scsymmes Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation.
- Where is John I Smith Charities Inc based?
- John I Smith Charities Inc is based in SC.
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