· Private foundation
Smart Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Resilient Arrow ↗
- Who funds CHILD FREEDOM COALITION ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LET THERE BE MOM INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS GATE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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