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Kaye B Smith Foundation Inc

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$233kHuman Services$42kHealth$13kRecreation & Sports$10kEducation$9kAnimals$8kArts & Culture$7kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTMAN FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$19,200
DODGE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION$5,000
EASTMAN SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER$3,000
EMPTY STOCKING FUND$3,000
GOSPELLINK INC$3,000
Bluff Park United Methodist Church$3,000
ALL IN MINISTRIES$3,000
EASTMAN PRESBYTERTIAN CHURCH$2,100
Individual grant recipient$2,100
First Christian Church$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
FAITHFUL HEARTS ANIMAL SHELTER$1,500
DODGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
Dodge County Hospital Foundation$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MERCY CHEFS: $249 → 20%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $1k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $1k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $1k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $1k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 50 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
37

Total granted

$314k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+47%

Still filing today

20%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ES
    Empty Stocking Fund Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +101%
  • NA
    NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +167%
  • EC
    EMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • AC
    ATLANTA CHRISITAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • DC
    DODGE COUNTY BAPTIST ASSOC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • GI
    GOSPELINK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Wesley Foundation of the University of Georgia Inc

The Foundations purpose is for Methodist outreach to students at the University of Georgia even those who do not identify as Methodist. The Foundation operates a student center and carries out its primary activities: weekly services of…

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2
Georgia Biosciences Organization Inc

The mission of georgia biosciences organization is to advance the life sciences industry in georgia by promoting innovation, workforce development, and public understanding of its impact on the economy, health, and quality of life. the…

Community Improvement
3
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
4
Acfb Support Organization Inc

Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
8
Acfb Charitable Investments Inc

Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
10
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc

The brothers of phi beta sigma are the fraternity's most valuable resource and strength. they are the primary means by which the phi beta sigma objectives will be achieved. in order to accomplish the fraternity's objectives, it is…

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11
American Council of Engineering Com of Georgia Inc

Acec georgia champions the business of engineering by driving impactful public policy advocacy, delivering unmatched business development opportunities, empowering member firms with essential business resources, providing future-focused…

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12
Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education Inc

Inform and influence georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Refugees Inc; the most unlike its peers is Middle Georgia Honor Flight Middle Georgia Honor Flight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTMAN FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $84,000 · OtherEASTMAN FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHDODGE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION: $28,175 · OtherDODGE BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONATLANTA CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC: $23,500 · OtherATLANTA CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCALL CHRIST CHURCH: $13,750 · OtherEASTMAN SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $11,000 · OtherEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $11,000 · OtherALL IN MINISTRIES: $11,000 · Other+79 more: $129,599 · Other+79 moreEMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,800 · ReligionPFAMILY MISSION: $4,300 · ReligionGOSPELINK INC: $1,500 · ReligionCITY OF REFUGE: $500 · ReligionLEAVE IT BETTER INC: $4,550 · Community ImprovementFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $800 · Community ImprovementNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $249 · Human ServicesBeta Psi Foundation Inc: $3,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $600 · EducationDAYTONA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationCollective Learning Academy Inc: $500 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,075 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,075 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,075 · HealthMIDDLE GEORGIA HONOR FLIGHT Middle Georgia Honor Flight: $1,250 · Public Benefit
Other$312,024Religion$11,100Community Improvement$5,350Human Services$5,249Education$5,100Health$3,225Public Benefit$1,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLEAVE IT BETTER INC: $4,550 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPFAMILY MISSION: $4,300 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBeta Psi Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOSPELINK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA HONOR FLIGHT Middle Georgia Honor Flight: $1,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTONA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Learning Academy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $249 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREPROOF STUDENT MINISTRIES CORP: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Empty Stocking Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAVE IT BETTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PFAMILY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Beta Psi Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOSPELINK 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA6.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kaye B Smith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaye B Smith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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