· Private foundation
Smith Pete and Sally 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPSTATE FOREVER | $120,000 |
| TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIV FOUNDATION ENGAGED AGING | $50,000 |
| LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC | $25,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUND INC | $25,000 |
| WILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPEUTIC CENTER IN | $23,520 |
| UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS INC | $20,000 |
| CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY INC | $10,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RELATED DISORDERS ASS | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN SPROUTS LEARNING | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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; $84k 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
- UFUPSTATE FOREVER6× · 2019–2025 · $570k · revenue +101%
- TWTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $520k · revenue +45%
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $273k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF OCONEE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $50k
- OCOCONEE COUNTY - SOLID WASTE & RECYCLINGone grant, 2018 · $50k
- OMOCONEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +143%
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.
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Upstate Institute of Youth Programs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OCONEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds WILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER ↗
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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pete and Sally 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.