· Public charity
Smart Start of Davidson County Inc
Smart start of davidson county, inc.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVIDSON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $493,768 |
| LEXINGTON CITY SCHOOLS | $346,208 |
| BRIGHTER HORIZONS CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $264,776 |
| THOMASVILLE CITY SCHOOLS | $229,152 |
| VONS KIDS | $221,638 |
| A CHILDS WORLD | $190,623 |
| MARY MYERS CHILDCARE | $180,869 |
| THE LEARNING PLACE | $171,092 |
| CRADLES 2 CRAYONS DEVELOPMENT CENT | $124,239 |
| TYRO LEARNING CENTER | $77,610 |
| WESLYAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $61,560 |
| WALLBURG ACADEMY | $61,140 |
| HONEY BUNCH KIDS | $57,211 |
| DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUINTY COLLEGE | $49,602 |
| SON SHINE DAY CARE | $42,729 |
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 (FY17–25, $359k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDAVIDSON COUNTY SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M
- LCLEXINGTON CITY SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M
- TCTHOMASVILLE CITY SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- KCKID CITY CHILDRENS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $6k
- GIGROWING IN GRACEone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
3 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. 3 of the 34 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smart Start of Davidson County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smart Start of Davidson County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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