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Smyth County Charitable Fund
To support the mission of smyth county community foundation by identifying and supporting qualified programs and projects that serve to improve the overall health, wellness and education across smyth county and the surrounding communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $252k
- $250k+2 grants · $836k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $512,350 |
| SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $323,713 |
| APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPE INC | $200,000 |
| APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS COM DENTAL | $52,000 |
| MOUNT ROGERS HEALTH DISTRICT | $32,909 |
| MEL LEAMAN FREE CLINIC | $25,616 |
| FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT (FREE) | $23,550 |
| PROJECT CROSSROADS | $23,175 |
| WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART | $22,500 |
| VIRGINIA KIDS BELONG | $10,000 |
| BLAND MINISTRY CENTER | $8,740 |
| MARION ROTARY CLUB | $7,800 |
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 (FY24–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $923k 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
- ACAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPEINC3× · 2022–2024 · $400k · revenue +521% · 100% of their budget
- MDMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $102k · revenue +100%
- BMBLAND MINISTRY CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $125k
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $77k · revenue +65%
- TOTOWN OF MARIONone grant, 2023 · $66k
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.
To provide infants, children, and adults of NE Tennessee and SW Virginia with the hightest quality and cost effective evaluation, treatment, and education for speech, language, hearing and swallowing disorders regardless of an individuals…
Free and charitable meadical clinic that provides basic medical services, behavioral health assessments/counseling, well women's check ups, and dental services. opportunities provided for community volunteers and medical professionals.
To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia
The mission of the christian health clinic of howard county is to provide medical services, including dentistry and pharmacy, to the people of the county who cannot obtain medical care because of inability to pay.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
To improve the quality of life for local mountain residents by removing barriers to comprehensive healthcare services, connecting people to resources, and providing healthcare education.
To promote and enhance community welfare with access to behavorial health, physical health, and education services.
Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communites served.
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
To provide professional medical and dental healthcare to the uninsured and under-insured of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest VA
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment & Endowment and the most unlike its peers is Mission Dental Virginia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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 MOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPEINC ↗
- Who funds SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEL LEAMAN FREE CLINIC OF SMYTH CO ↗
- Who funds MISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA FREE MOBILE HEALTH SERVICES DBA REMOTE AREA MEDICAL - VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BLAND MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIAS KIDS BELONG ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER 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: Virginia Health Care Foundation · Delta Dental of Virginia Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Smyth County Charitable Fund 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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