· Private foundation
Miles J Smith Family 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 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 $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $73,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $40,000 |
| NORTH HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $25,376 |
| ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| SALISBURY ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $20,000 |
| STONEBRIDGE CHURCH COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE ROWAN COUNTY | $10,500 |
| SERGE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| THIRD MILLENIUM MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Miles J Smith Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +163%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +22%
- RHROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES5× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NHNOVANT HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MSMAPLEBROOK SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +46%
- HMHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +63%
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
The mission is to glorify god by partnering with christian families to provide an academically excellent education that approaches every discipline from a christ-centered, biblical perspective.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.
It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Suffolk christian academy prepares its diverse student body through rigorous, biblically-based academics to excel and to impact the world for the glory of god.
The organization operates a non-denominational school providing a christian environment for learning.
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 37 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Psalm 119 Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Union County Community Shelter ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Novant Health Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Miles J Smith Family Foundation 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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