· Private foundation
Re Bob and Vivian Smith 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FAUSTINA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $30,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE SPIRIT COOKERS INC | $25,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR SOUTH TEXAS AA | $25,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA - HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THEATER UNDER THE STARS | $20,000 |
| SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ARBOR PRESCHOOL | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% 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
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +29%
- TSTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +18%
- TATexas A&M Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- APARBOR PRESCHOOL GRANTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TCTEXAS CHILDREN HOSPITAL GRANTone grant, 2017 · $26k
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
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The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Astrodome Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Re Bob and Vivian Smith 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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