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Ross H and Eva J Smith Foundation at a glance

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Ross H and Eva J Smith Foundation

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$129kHealth$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kEducation$28kReligion$23kArts & Culture$16kFood & Nutrition$12kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orange Christian Services$5,000
Ministrial Alliance$2,000
St Henry's Catholic Church$2,000
Appeal for Catholic Ministries$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BRIDGE CITY ORANGEFIELD MINISTRIAL: $1k → 14%BRIDGE CITY ORANGEFIELD MINISTRIAL: $500 → 14%Meals On Wheels: $12k → 14%Orange Christian Services: $5k → 14%Orfange Christion Services: $5k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%Orange Christian Services: $5k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE: $1k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE: $1k → 14%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 14 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$219k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+36%

Still filing today

50%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +120%
  • LS
    LAMAR STATE COLLEGE - ORANGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • ST
    SOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SH
    ST HENRY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +13%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEAST
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Orange East Senior Center Inc

To serve the needs of seniors.

Housing & Shelter
2
Orange Food 2 Kids
Food & Nutrition
3
Orange Scholarship Foundation
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4
Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic Inc

Provide medical care to individuals that are 200% below the poverty level in a primary care setting. this will include examination, treatment and medication. individuals will be screened before being seen to be sure they meet financial…

Health
5
Orange Free Clinic Inc

Orange county free clinics mission is to provide primary medical care to citizens of orange county who do not have resources to obtain these basic health care needs.

Health
6
Muleshoe Meals On Wheels Inc

The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…

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7
Orange County Community Partners for Children Inc

Our Organization raises money from local individual and business donations to provide supplemental support to case workers of the local State Child Protective Services office. This support takes the form of clothes, shoes, diapers, school…

Youth Development
8
Meals On Wheels Orange County Nc

The mission of mowocnc is to nourish and enrich the lives of older adults through meal delivery and personal connection.

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9
Olivero Medical Health Center Inc

Olivero Medical Health Center Inc is a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality comprehensive primary medical and oral healthcare services to everyone regardless of theirability to pay

Health
10
You Are Special

The mission of you are special community outreach is to nourish hungry people in orange county by filling their basic food needs with dignity, hospitality and compassion

Human Services
11
Gonzales County Senior Citizens Association Inc

Provide home delivered meals and transportation services free of charge

Food & Nutrition
12
Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange Christian Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

13 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. 13 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $81,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS: $22,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSSt Mary Catholic School: $16,350 · OtherSt Mary Catholic SchoolST HENRY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherST HENRY CATHOLIC CHURCHAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEAST: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEAST+10 more: $28,450 · Other+10 moreORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVIC…MEALS ON WHEELS: $12,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELSSOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE INC: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOS…Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $2,000 · HealthJulie Rogers…Mauriceville Heritage Association: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLutcher Theater Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMIKE EDEN MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$173,300Human Services$57,500Health$32,000Arts & Culture$11,000Religion$5,000Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $12,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLAMAR STATE COLLEGE - ORANGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLutcher Theater Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMIKE EDEN MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE CITY ORANGEFIELD MINISTERIALALLIANCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds Mauriceville Heritage Association ↗
  • Who funds LAMAR STATE COLLEGE - ORANGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lutcher Theater Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIKE EDEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE CITY ORANGEFIELD MINISTERIALALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Foundation for Southe…Nelda C and H J Lutch…Dow Company FoundationMechia FoundationInternational Paper C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for Southeast Texas IncTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Mechia Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ross H and Eva J Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross H and Eva J Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 27 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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