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Miles J Smith Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$394k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$293kEducation$220kInternational$213kReligion$184kFood & Nutrition$110kHuman Services$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kHealth$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $298k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$10,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THIRD MILLENIUM MINISTRIES$10,000
ALLIANCE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 14%SAVING GRACE FARM: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%UNION COUNTY COMMUNITY SHELTER: $5k → 7%SAVING GRACE FARM: $4k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%SAVING GRACE FARM: $3k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $25k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $25k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $8k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $8k → 15%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $7k → 15%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

ID
NY
PA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Miles J Smith Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 82%.

Miles J Smith Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 18 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$845k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+46%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & 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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +163%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +22%
  • RH
    ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • NH
    NOVANT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • UC
    Union County Community Shelter
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • HM
    HARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +63%
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
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
2
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

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.

Religion
3
Charlotte Christian School

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.

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4
Northeastern Seminary

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…

Education
5
Covenant Christian Inc

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.

Education
6
Arborbrook Christian Academy

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.

Education
7
Landmark Christian School

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.

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8
Norfolk Christian Schools

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.

Education
9
Covenant Christian School

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…

Education
10
Suffolk Christian Academy

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.

Unclassified
11
Collin County Cornerstone Christian Academy

The organization operates a non-denominational school providing a christian environment for learning.

Education
12
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 37 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY …FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHSTONEBRIDGE CHURCH COMMUNITY: $35,000 · OtherSTONEBRIDGE CHURCH COMMUNITYROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLL…SALISBURY ACADEMY: $25,000 · OtherSALISBURY ACADEMYMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP: $22,689 · OtherMISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIPTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INC+15 more: $84,307 · Other+15 moreFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $292,964 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLI…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $207,870 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSETHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $24,841 · ReligionTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINI…+1 more: $7,205 · ReligionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $72,876 · Human ServicesROWAN HELPING …SAVING GRACE FARM INC: $16,482 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACE F…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN: $110,091 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …NORTH HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationCOVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $5,500 · HealthCAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Health
Other$336,996Philanthropy$292,964Religion$239,916Human Services$169,358Food & Nutrition$110,091Education$100,000Youth Development$21,000Health$10,500

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $292,964 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $207,870 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN: $110,091 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $72,876 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSALISBURY ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC: $24,841 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE FARM INC: $16,482 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPsalm 119 Association Inc: $7,205 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnion County Community Shelter: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARGRAVE MILITARY ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAPLEBROOK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Margaret C Woodson Fo…The Cannon Foundation…Duke Energy FoundationRowan Regional Medica…The Wallace Family Fo…Novant Health IncThe Leon Levine Found…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Miles J Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miles J Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%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
    2get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Miles J Smith Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Miles J Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 37 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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