· Public charity
Smart Start Partnership for Childre
To support, educate and advocate to build a strong foundation for young children in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,179,545 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,272,663 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,118 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $751k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $243,727 |
| NESSA'S YOUNG'UNS NATURAL PLAY CENT | $169,109 |
| LITTLE BLESSINGS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $153,375 |
| ALICE'S PLAYGROUND | $72,894 |
| STEPS TO HOPE ACADEMY | $60,463 |
| LITTLE RED SCHOOL | $51,643 |
| MT PISGAH LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL | $48,045 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,086 |
| BEST EVER HOME DAYCARE | $38,523 |
| THE PLAY AND LEARNING CENTER | $36,220 |
| LOVE AND LEARNING | $30,034 |
| LITTLE BRIGHT MINDS | $23,413 |
| GODS GIFT | $23,028 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN | $22,146 |
| FUMC HENDERSONVILLE | $20,418 |
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 (FY22–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 12 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- CFCHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +131%
- BRBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN3× · 2022–2024 · $483k · revenue +120%
- WCWESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HIHERE I GROWone grant, 2023 · $15k
- HCHENDERSON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $11k
- BSBELLS SCHOOL FOR LITTLE FOLKSone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
Provide affordable and depenable daycare and head start programs for hancock county and the surrounding areas
The Small People Child Development Center is organized to provide early childhood education, care, and developmental services to infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The organization supports working families by offering a safe,…
Child care services and child preschool instruction
When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.
The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
Training for early child care
Preschool education and childcare
Our mission is to provide quality and safe childcare for the families in our community and provide our youngest learners with a positive start to their education journey.
The organization's mission is to provide learning opportunities for the children of educators within Davidson County, Tennessee.
In 2001, Joyful Learning Educational Development Center (Joyful Learning EDC) was founded with a clear vision to provide accessible, high-quality childcare that meets the diverse needs of every child.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smart Start of Transylvania County and the most unlike its peers is Wild Oak Independent School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 40 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 CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SMART START OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds East Flat Rock Daycare Inc ↗
- Who funds BEACON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Helping Hand Developmental Center ↗
- Who funds BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST MIGRANT HEAD START PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Wild Oak Independent School ↗
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: Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Henderson County United Way Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Smart Start Partnership for Childre 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.
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.