· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SPIRIT COOKERS INC | $25,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA - HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR SOUTH TEXAS AA | $25,000 |
| ST EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ARBOR PRESCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THEATER UNDER THE STARS | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- ACAstrodome Conservancyone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
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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…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
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UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Re Bob and Vivian Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Re Bob and Vivian Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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