How much does Smart Start Partnership for Childre give?

Smart Start Partnership for Childre reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,179,545, out of $1,272,663 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Smart Start Partnership for Childre fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (93%), Education (7%), Crime & Legal (0%).

Who are Smart Start Partnership for Childre's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc ($2.3M), Smart Start of Transylvania County ($1.3M), Little Blessings ($981k).

Does Smart Start Partnership for Childre fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Smart Start Partnership for Childre based?

Smart Start Partnership for Childre is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Smart Start Partnership for Childre

To support, educate and advocate to build a strong foundation for young children in our community.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Itemized grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $22,146
Largest grant, FY2025: $243,727
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $972k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Smart Start Partnership for Childre funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	27	$1.2M	44%
FY2024	15	$1.3M	0%
FY2023	20	$1.6M	10%
FY2022	20	$1.4M	30%
FY2021	16	$697k	25%
FY2020	14	$715k	7%
FY2019	14	$712k	0%
FY2018	15	$719k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$7.7MEducation$552kCrime & Legal$11kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc	$2,279,636	8	25%
Smart Start of Transylvania County	$1,313,938	3	25%
Little Blessings	$981,351	8	n/a
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children	$482,656	3	16%
Alice's Playground	$393,395	8	n/a
Steps to Hope Academy	$334,656	8	n/a
Nessa's Young'Uns Natural Play Cent	$325,927	5	n/a
Love and Learning	$283,939	8	n/a
Little Red School	$226,079	7	n/a
Little Bright Minds	$219,914	8	n/a

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All grantees of Smart Start Partnership for Childre by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc	$2,279,636	8	25%
Smart Start of Transylvania County	$1,313,938	3	25%
Little Blessings	$981,351	8	n/a
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children	$482,656	3	16%
Alice's Playground	$393,395	8	n/a
Steps to Hope Academy	$334,656	8	n/a
Nessa's Young'Uns Natural Play Cent	$325,927	5	n/a
Love and Learning	$283,939	8	n/a
Little Red School	$226,079	7	n/a
Little Bright Minds	$219,914	8	n/a
Mount Pisgah Lutheran Church	$201,047	7	n/a
Aletheia Academy	$169,510	4	n/a
Western Carolina Community Action Inc	$149,554	5	0%
East Flat Rock Daycare Inc	$98,153	7	6%
Beacon Child Development Center	$86,932	4	15%
Helping Hand Developmental Center	$65,814	6	2%
Buncombe County Partnership for Children Inc	$63,427	3	1%
Best Ever Home Daycare	$51,923	2	n/a
Children's World Center	$50,305	3	n/a
Montessori Country Day	$44,879	4	n/a
Gods Gift	$23,028	1	n/a
Grace Lutheran Church	$22,146	1	n/a
First United Methodist Church	$20,418	1	n/a
East Coast Migrant Head Start Project	$20,306	1	n/a
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church	$15,903	1	n/a
His Kids Child Developmental Center	$15,226	1	n/a
Here I Grow	$15,069	1	n/a
Mud Creek Christian School	$10,769	1	n/a
Henderson County North Carolina	$10,700	1	n/a
Kids Kountry Klub House	$10,696	1	n/a
Fletcher United Methodist Church	$9,492	1	n/a
Mountain Fundamentals	$7,615	1	n/a
Hendersonville Presbyterian Church	$6,325	1	n/a
Biltmore Academy	$6,124	1	n/a
Wild Oak Independent School	$5,709	1	1%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.

Smart Start Partnership for Childre supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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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.

Community Foundation of Henderson County IncNC21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Smart Start Partnership for Childre

How much does Smart Start Partnership for Childre give?: Smart Start Partnership for Childre reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,179,545, out of $1,272,663 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Smart Start Partnership for Childre fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (93%), Education (7%), Crime & Legal (0%).
Who are Smart Start Partnership for Childre's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc ($2.3M), Smart Start of Transylvania County ($1.3M), Little Blessings ($981k).
Does Smart Start Partnership for Childre fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Smart Start Partnership for Childre?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc.
Where is Smart Start Partnership for Childre based?: Smart Start Partnership for Childre is based in NC.