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SCS Smith Family 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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$117kReligion$74kPublic Benefit$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kScience & Tech$50kEducation$20kCivil Rights$20kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINT USA INC$60,000
CLUB 20 EDUCATION AND RESEARCHFOUNDATION INC$50,000
FAITH BIBLE CHAPEL INTERNATIONAL$17,500
02The need
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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 (FY22–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MISSION PRE-BORN INC: $92k → 16%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
IN
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
TX
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 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.

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Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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3
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
6
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
7
Power to Decide

Power to decide envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. its mission is to advance…

Human Services
8
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
9
Allyfe Pregnancy Clinics

Allyfe pregnancy clinic exists to offer truth, hope, and love to every woman and family facing an unexpected pregnancy. founded in 1985, we have built four decades of integrity as a christ-centered center of excellence - providing…

Human Services
10
Global Surgical and Medical Support Group

The global surgical and medical support group (gsmsg) is a 501(c)3 non- profit organization dedicated to providing medical relief to communities in conflict zones, austere environments and disaster areas around the world. by enlisting the…

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Louis Hero Network. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITH BIBLE CHAPEL INTERNATIONAL: $73,500 · OtherFAITH BIBLE CHAPEL INTERNATIONALTURNING POINT USA INC: $60,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · OtherMercy Ships International: $5,000 · OtherMission Pre-Born Inc: $92,000 · Human ServicesMission Pre-Born IncHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5,000 · Human ServicesST LOUIS HERO NETWORK: $55,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST LOUIS HERO N…CLUB 20 EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Social ScienceCLUB 20 EDUCA…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Other$143,500Human Services$97,000Public Safety & Disaster$55,000Social Science$50,000Education$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Civil Rights$20,000

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 budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS HERO NETWORK: $55,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization SCS Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SCS Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
2report 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.
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How do I get to SCS Smith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to SCS Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 11 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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