· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAGONFLY HOUSE | $6,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF DAVIE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE PIEDMONT | $6,000 |
| JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COOLEEMEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HILLSDALE BAPTIST PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CORNATZER-DULIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $3,000 |
| DAVIE COUNTY TOYS FOR TOTS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HIGHWAY AND HEDGES MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| BETHLEHEM METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| JUST HOPE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its 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 +47% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 46 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 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 COOLEEMEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds A STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CORNATZER-DULIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
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: Davie Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith and Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith and Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Smith and Davis’ filings →