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Mw Smith Jr Foundation at a glance

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Mw Smith Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$290kHealth$248kArts & Culture$195kEnvironment$137kHuman Services$114kHousing & Shelter$65kScience & Tech$57kReligion$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$24,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARC BALDWIN COUNTY: $4k → 12%CAMILLE PLACE: $10k → 21%MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $9k → 21%MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $5k → 21%MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $5k → 21%MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $4k → 21%MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $3k → 21%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$976k · 29 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
39

Total granted

$976k
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

52%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FF
    FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +70% · 30% of their budget
  • KK
    KING'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +3%
  • MA
    MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA
    5× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • JP
    JOHN PAUL JONES HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
  • AW
    ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +54%
  • JA
    JMC AUXILIARY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Monroevillemonroe County Economic Development Auth

Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.

Community Improvement
3
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
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4
The Medical Foundation of Alabama

To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects

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5
Alabama Public Health Association Inc

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…

Health
6
Alabama Bicentennial Commission Foundation Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Friends of the Alabama Governors Mansion Inc

To Preserve the Governors Mansion

Arts & Culture
8
Atmore Chamber of Commerce

The promotion of business and industry in the atmore, alabama trade area.

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9
Alabama Broadcasters Association Educational Foundation
Education
10
Alabama Coastal Heritage Trust

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…

Environment
11
Alabama Archives & History Foundation

To raise funds to support the work of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama's State Archival and Museum agency.

Arts & Culture
12
Wiregrass Rc&D Council

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 69 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE SMITH MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $136,374 · OtherWHITE SMITH MEMORIAL LIBRARYTRIANGLE CONSERVANCY: $130,900 · OtherTRIANGLE CONSERVANCYWILCOX COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $72,200 · OtherWILCOX COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INCCONTACT ARCHEOLOGY INC: $57,250 · OtherCONTACT ARCHEOLOGY INCIndividual grant recipient: $26,250 · Other+43 more: $343,199 · Other+43 moreFAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC: $140,801 · Arts & CultureFAIRHOPE FILM F…MONROE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMONROE COUNTY H…CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,125 · Arts & CultureCLARKE COUNTY H…EASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMASVILLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $43,200 · HealthTHOMASVILL…MONROE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 · HealthMONROE HEA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…ALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC: $8,000 · HealthALABAMA FR…Shoulder Central Gulf Coast Inc: $6,000 · HealthShoulder C…Autism2Ability Inc: $5,250 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthKING'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $56,000 · EducationKING'S KI…MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,000 · EducationMONROE CO…ALABAMA SOUTHERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationMONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $26,000 · Human ServicesCAMILLE PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20,000 · AnimalsSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $18,400 · Recreation & Sports
Other$766,173Arts & Culture$170,926Health$109,950Education$100,000Human Services$40,000Animals$20,000Recreation & Sports$18,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC: $140,801 over 9y, 30% of budgetWILCOX COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $72,200 over 3y, 19% of budgetKING'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $56,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetTHOMASVILLE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $43,200 over 2y, 19% of budgetMONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMONROEVILLE AREA YMCA: $26,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMONROE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $18,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPRIDE OF ATMORE INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BALDWIN COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetMONROE COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM: $14,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $10,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,125 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCAMILLE PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMONROEVILLE MAIN STREET: $9,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetPILOTS FOR CHRIST INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN SHORE ART ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA JUNIOR MISS SCHOLARSHIP FOU: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAutism2Ability Inc: $5,250 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBLACK BELT TREASURES: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARC-BALDWIN COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 CAMILLE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 ALABAMA JUNIOR MISS SCHOLARSHIP FOU ↗

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.

J L Bedsole Foundatio…Alabama Power Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…The Sybil and White S…Crampton Trust #12550…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…Mapp Family FoundationRc Craft Family Found…United Bank Charitabl…Hearin - Chandler Fou…Harrigan Family Found…Thomas L Turner Chari…
J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-TrusteeAL34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to Mw Smith Jr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mw Smith Jr 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 69 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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