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Smith Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SAMARTITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SWING PALS INC | $7,500 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $7,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| FRONT STREET UNITED METHODIST CHUR | $5,000 |
| THE LAMB'S CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $3,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| RED OAK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $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 (FY19–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $218k · revenue +128%
- ACAlamance Community College Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +3%
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHONA SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $12k
- JTJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- SASAINT ANTHONY THE GREAT GREEK ORTHOone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Socionomics Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 68 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 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alamance Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Old North State Council Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds J HAROLD SMITH CAROLINA SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds ALAMANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SWINGPALS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOCIONOMICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMANCE ELDERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RALPH SCOTT LIFESERVICES INC ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ernest a Koury Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Allendale Fund · Vicky and Sam Hunt Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Hagan Family Fund · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc
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.
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