· Private foundation
John I Smith Charities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENDLETON PLACE INC | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS UPSTATE | $50,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| HERITAGE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| SC GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| THORNWELL | $40,000 |
| YMCA OF GREENVILLE | $30,000 |
| LEAD COLLECTIVE | $30,000 |
| LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- 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 GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- 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 ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS 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 ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE MEDIATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John I Smith Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John I Smith Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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