· Private foundation
John I Smith Charities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PENDLETON PLACE INC | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS UPSTATE | $50,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| HERITAGE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THORNWELL | $40,000 |
| SC GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| LEAD COLLECTIVE | $30,000 |
| YMCA OF GREENVILLE | $30,000 |
| GREER RELIEF | $25,000 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
70 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $720k · revenue +5%
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $625k · revenue +26%
Davidson College5× · 2018–2025 · $541k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TRTHE RILEY INSTITUTE AT FURMAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $150k
- SSOTERIAone grant, 2019 · $75k
- CICOMMUNITYWORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +43%
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Favor Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 113 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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
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- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
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- Who funds SENIOR ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE MEDIATION CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 John I Smith Charities Inc 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.
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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