· Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF KNOXVILLE TN INC | $20,000 |
| CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTUS CENTER | $15,000 |
| ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC INC | $15,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| A SECRET SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC - TN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| THRIVE (SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES) | $5,000 |
| CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF GREATER KNOXVILLE | $5,000 |
| MUSE KNOXVILLE | $5,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Smith Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
Knoxville entrepreneur center was formed for educational and charitable purpose to provide resources and assist entrepreneurs and small business owners in knoxville, tennessee and the surrounding community to transform their business…
To develop and sustain a symphony orchestra of the highest artistic standards and to reach east tennessee audiences of all ages by providing excellence in musical performance and education programs.
We are a private educational facility providing educational services for grades pre-k through 12th grade.
The purpose of the knoxville museum of art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . to this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent…
Primarily to spread the gospel of jesus christ in downtown knoxville, tennessee by serving the community of the greater knoxville area through the provision of services, resources, worship, teaching, fellowship and networking capabilities.
The mission of the knoxville history project is to research and promote the history and culture of knoxville, tennessee. the knoxville history projects (khp) stories, programs, and publications both educate and help residents and visitors…
The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.
To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.
Provide rescue and other community emergency services
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
Public library for the benefit of the town providing library access and services for the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Knoxville Family Justice Center and the most unlike its peers is Random Acts of Flowers. 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 15 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 THE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A SECRET SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN FLYERS EAA CHAPTER 1494 INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
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: Akima Club Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · The Melrose Foundation · The Charlie & Moll Anderson Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Thompson Charitable Foundation · The Chairman Club · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · The Clayton Homes 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 Family Foundation 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.