· Private foundation
Lillian S Smith 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BLISSFUL DREAMS HORSE FARMS | $10,000 |
| EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| OCEANSIDE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S MINISTRI | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- PHPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $89k · revenue +4%
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +85%
- ECEast Cooper Community Outreach3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- PHPRISMA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $35k
- MTMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- PHPRISMA HEALTH FOUINDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
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…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Workman Family Charitable Trust · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Td Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lillian S Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lillian S Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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