· Private foundation
Smith and Davis Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY PROMISE OF DAVIE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| DRAGONFLY HOUSE | $6,000 |
| JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE PIEDMONT | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COOLEEMEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CORNATZER-DULIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $3,000 |
| DAVIE COUNTY TOYS FOR TOTS | $3,000 |
| HIGHWAY AND HEDGES MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| HILLSDALE BAPTIST PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| JUST HOPE | $2,000 |
| BETHLEHEM METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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 +47% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- FPFamily Promise of Davie County5× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +47%
- DRDAVIE RESCUE SQUAD INC3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +14%
- JHJUST HOPE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- DBDAVIE BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $9k
- DHDAVIE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1962one grant, 2023 · $8k
- COCHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECYone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
To provide fire protection to the dysartsville community of mcdowell county north carolina
Fire protection & ems service
Fight and extinguish fires in or about como, nc and the surrounding hertford county.
To provide fire department services for the community of wise, nc and surrounding areas
Provide fire protective services and first responder services to the residents of the Double Island Fire District, Yancey County, North Carolina Region
Fire & rescue for the east howellsville township in robeson county, nc.
Organization provides firefighting and rescue services to the town of gaston and northampton county, nc
Providing volunteer fire department and rescue services to residents of reems creek and beaver dam, north carolina
Fire protection services
Community fire protection and prevention.
Fire protection services for dolphin, va and surrounding communities
To provide fire protection to the ashford north cove cmmunity of mcdowell country north carolina
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Davie County and the most unlike its peers is House of Hope Piedmont Region Minis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 46 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 Family Promise of Davie County ↗
- Who funds DAVIE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds JUST HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds House of Hope Piedmont Region Minis ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COOLEEMEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds A STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNATZER-DULIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
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: Davie Community Foundation Inc · 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 Smith and Davis Foundation Inc 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.