· Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k15 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FRONT STREET UNITED METHODIST CHUR | $20,000 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE LAMB'S CHAPEL | $20,000 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE BURLINGTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| J HAROLD SMITH CAROLINA SCHOLARS FU | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OLD NORTH STATE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $7,500 |
| UNCG - ALYSE S COOPER | $7,500 |
| METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–26, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2026, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2019–2026 · $248k · 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +134%
- JTJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
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.
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…
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
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…
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.
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.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 75 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 THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Old North State Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Alamance Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds J HAROLD SMITH CAROLINA SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds SWINGPALS INC ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEAF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIONOMICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RALPH SCOTT LIFESERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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