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Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$622k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$318k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$1.7MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$350kEducation$61kPhilanthropy$49kHousing & Shelter$36kCivil Rights$12k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22
  • $250k+2 grants · $622k
$3
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$318,174
CHRISTUS CONTINUING CARE$303,667
SALVATION ARMY$4
SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC$3
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO$3
ROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC$3
PROJECT HOPE$3
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$3
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION$3
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $295k → 11%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $294k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $295k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $13k → 11%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER ENDOWNMENT FUND: $13k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $8k → 11%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER ENDOWNMENT FUND: $13k → 16%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $13k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $7k → 11%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $3 → 16%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $12k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $6k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $6k → 11%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $3 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3 → 11%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $13k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $13k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $12k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $12k → 16%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 14 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$3.1M
$71k

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationOther
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

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    5× · 2019–2024 · $344k · revenue +47%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $332k · revenue +52%
  • SA
    SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $332k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • RM
    ROY MAAS YOUTH
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
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
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
4
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers- Capitol Area

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Baylor Health Care System

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
St Joseph Manor

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
7
Christus Health Foundation of Southeast Texas

Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.

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8
Texas Palliative Care

Texas palliative care operates to strengthen and further the goals and purpose of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.

Health
9
Burleson St Joseph Manor

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

—
10
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Christus Health

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health
12
Scott & White Clinic

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jumet Charitable Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $347,389 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $338,023 · OtherROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INCASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO: $332,212 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIOChristus Continuing Care: $329,567 · OtherChristus Continuing CarePROJECT H O P E INC: $311,655 · OtherPROJECT H O P E INC+8 more: $144,300 · Other+8 moreSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $332,192 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INCHospice of the Valley: $320,418 · Human ServicesHospice of the ValleyFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $294,485 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES…Guide Dogs of Texas Inc: $49,300 · Human Services+1 more: $25,600 · Human ServicesBaylor College of Medicine: $344,074 · EducationBaylor Colleg…JUMET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $49,300 · EducationJUMET CHARITA…
Other$1,803,146Human Services$1,021,995Education$393,374

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 budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $344,074 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $338,023 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO: $332,212 over 5y, 22% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $332,192 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetChristus Continuing Care: $329,567 over 5y, 17% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $320,418 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $294,485 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $49,300 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJUMET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $49,300 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBATTERED WOMENS SHELTER ENDOWMENT FUND: $25,600 over 2y, 21% 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 Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds ROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Christus Continuing Care ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUMET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER ENDOWMENT FUND ↗

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.

Faye L & William L Co…San Antonio Area Foun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · 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 Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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