· Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation Fred M Smith Co-Trustee
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION FRED M SMITH CO-TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $397k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER OF HOPE POLK COUNTY | $40,000 |
| WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS | $30,000 |
| POLK COUNTY CARES | $24,700 |
| SAAFE HOUSE | $15,500 |
| SANCTUARY OF HOPE | $15,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LIVINGSTON | $15,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ADVANCEMENT FDN | $11,000 |
| BRIAN PERRY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FD | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| ISERVE365 | $11,000 |
| POLK COUNTY COMMERCE CENTER | $11,000 |
| SPCA OF POLK COUNTY | $11,000 |
| CHILDRENZ HAVEN | $10,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- GPGRACE PREGNANCY OUTREACH4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +23%
- WFWHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +3%
- SHSAAFE HOUSE5× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- BWBIBLE WAY CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTone grant, 2023 · $30k
- PCPOLK COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LIVINGSTONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Crisis pregnancy counseling.
To provide shelter to abused families.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
Confidential pregnancy testing; counseling in pregnancy options; classes in prenatal care, parenting and job skills; referrals; providing baby items and clothing.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
People of faith responding to needs by serving, teaching, building community and preserving the dignity of individuals and families in Southeast Texas.
Provides support to critically ill or physically impaired homeless and indigent individuals in Austin by providing food, shelter, clothing, and other forms of assistance. Also serves as advocate for imprisoned men and women.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Inc of Central Texas and the most unlike its peers is Livingston Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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.
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.
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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 Fred M Smith Co-Trustee 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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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