· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUND INC | $25,000 |
| LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UFUPSTATE FOREVER6× · 2019–2025 · $570k · revenue +268%
- 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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Pete and Sally Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Pete and Sally Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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