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Smart Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| HAMPTON PARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +61% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $500k · revenue +116%- NGNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- RRARROWone grant, 2022 · $20k
- RAResilient Arrowone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREENVILLEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shepherds Gate. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHANNON FOREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Resilient Arrow ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD FREEDOM COALITION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC ↗
- Who funds LET THERE BE MOM INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS GATE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
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: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Kellett Family Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel 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 Smart Family 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.
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