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Mw Smith Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE SMITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $52,000 |
| KINGS KIDS FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| WILCOX COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL | $24,500 |
| PRIDE OF ATMORE | $4,500 |
| ALABAMA JUNIOR MISS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SWIFT COLES HISTORIC HOME | $2,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,757 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FFFAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +5% · 30% of their budget
- KKKING'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +3%
- MAMONROEVILLE AREA YMCA5× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JPJOHN PAUL JONES HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $23k
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +54%
- JAJMC AUXILIARYone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
The alabama public health association, inc., is an association of individuals and organizations interested in public health in alabama. the mission of the association is to link individuals and organizations in addressing public health…
The foundation's missionis to provide assistance to the alabama bicentennial commission, which supports, created and executes events and activities that commemorate the stories of alabama's people, places and path to statehood.
To Preserve the Governors Mansion
The promotion of business and industry in the atmore, alabama trade area.
Acquire, preserve, protect, restore, manage & improve alabama lands & water of ecological, scientific, scenic, wildlife or recreational significance. conduct, sponsor, and encourage, engage in ecological study & research. support…
To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.
To develop natural and human resources to furher conservation for the benefit of the general public To promote soil and water conservation To develop the natural resources in a 10 county area of Alabama
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wilcox Community Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WILCOX COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KING'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds MONROE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE OF ATMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Prodisee Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMILLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds MONROEVILLE MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shoulder Central Gulf Coast 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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Sybil and White Smith Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Rc Craft Family Foundation · United Bank Charitable Foundation · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Harrigan Family Foundation · Thomas L Turner Charitable Trust Regions Bank
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 Mw Smith Jr 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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