· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orange Christian Services | $5,000 |
| Ministrial Alliance | $2,000 |
| St Henry's Catholic Church | $2,000 |
| Appeal for Catholic Ministries | $1,500 |
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 (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 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 +44% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +120%- LSLAMAR STATE COLLEGE - ORANGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +36%
- STSOUTHEAST TEXAS HOSPICE INC3× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SHST HENRY CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +13%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEASTone grant, 2020 · $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 serve the needs of seniors.
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…
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.
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…
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…
The mission of mowocnc is to nourish and enrich the lives of older adults through meal delivery and personal connection.
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
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
Provide home delivered meals and transportation services free of charge
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange Christian Services Inc and 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.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Nelda C and H J Lutcher Stark Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Mechia Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · 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 Ross H and Eva J 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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.