· Private foundation
Roger B Smith Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $50,000 |
| 3GEN MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST | $25,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST DAVID EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| VINCEREMOS RIDING CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MONDAYS HOPE | $5,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALT PONDS COALITION INC | $5,000 |
| KIDSENSES INC (DBA CHILDRENS MUSEUM) | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| STEPS TO HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| GREEN CREEK HOUNDS INC | $4,000 |
| SOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- 3M3GEN MINISTRIES7× · 2019–2025 · $149k · revenue +39%
- DRDANNY & RONS RESCUE3× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $25k
- SBSTEP BY STEP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -75%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
To save the lives of the neglected, abused, and forgotten horses and donkeys in the southwest florida area.
The mission of Serenity Farm is to prevent equine neglect, abuse, abandonment where we can and rehabilitate and find loving, forever homes for neglected or abused equines. We educate the public on the beauty and value of rescued horses. We…
Caring for elderly, handicapped & ill domestic animals
At rosemary farm, our mission is to rescue horses in need and protect them for life. we save equines from slaughter, neglect and abuse. while adoption is not our focus, select horses may be available to the right home, if right for the…
Hope equine rescue is devoted to the care and placement of unwanted, abused and neglected horse. our goal os to provide for the horse when no one else can or will. we are putting hope back into the lives of horse one at
To save canine lives and find forever homes
Heavens ranch rescue is committed to relieving the suffering of equines enduring abuse, neglect or abandonment. we provide rescued horses with a consistent environment and a second chance to find a qualified home.
Rescue rehab and rehome dogs and horses in need. We rescue them from auction shelters the streets etc.
None
To rescue and provide care, rehabilitation and adoption services for abused, neglected and abandoned horses.
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home equine in need, to educate the public about proper horse care, provide information about the steps to take with an equine that is abused or neglected, to provide assistance to horse owners…
To provide a therapeutic riding facility and a premier accredited path facility through a variety of programs offered in therapeutic riding and horsemanship skills to challenged riders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steps to Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Organisation Pour Leducation Et Le Developement Communautaire Dhaiti. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 3GEN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Grandmas Place Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MONDAYS HOPE ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREEN CREEK HOUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SALT PONDS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Charlestown Land Trust ↗
- Who funds GLENEAYRE EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANISATION POUR LEDUCATION ET LE DEVELOPEMENT COMMUNAUTAIRE DHAITI ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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: The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Roger B Smith Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Grandmas Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 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.