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Smyth County Charitable Fund at a glance

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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.3MPhilanthropy$324kRecreation & Sports$234kEducation$77kHousing & Shelter$23kArts & Culture$23kReligion$14kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $163k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.9M
$33,282
Median grant
1
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPE INC$2,600,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS$316,965
THE TOWN OF SALTVILLE$87,670
ATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$75,000
MOUNT ROGERS PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION$33,434
SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$33,282
PROJECT CROSSROADS$30,000
MEL LEAMAN FREE CLINIC$29,122
MOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$21,500
BLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER$10,865
HUNGRY MOTHER LUTHERAN RETREAT CENTER$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT (FREE): $24k → 8%VIRGINIA KIDS BELONG: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 12 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$4.8M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+6%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPEINC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +521% · 100% of their budget
  • MR
    MOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $537k · revenue +12%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS
    2× · 2023–2025 · $394k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • TO
    TOWN OF MARION
    one grant, 2023 · $66k
  • MS
    MOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center

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…

Health
2
Community Care Clinic of Highlands-Cashiers Inc

Organization was performed and provides free medical care for inhabitants of the southern appalachians in macon and jackson county of north carolina.

Education
3
Rocky Mountain Health Foundation
Health
4
Smithville Community Clinic

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.

Health
5
Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems Inc

Provide comprehensive primary medical care to the communities served.

Health
6
Smyth County Community Hospital

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.

Health
7
Christian Health Center of Howard County

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.

Health
8
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Marlboro County General Hospital
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10
Appalachian Miles for Smiles

To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia

Health
11
Appalachian Access

To promote and enhance community welfare with access to behavorial health, physical health, and education services.

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12
Appalachian Community Health Center

Purpose of the organization is to provide comprehensive community behavioral health services to the local community including mental health, substance abuse and mental retardation/developmental disability services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Foundation for Rehabilitation Equipment & Endowment; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPEINC: $3,000,000 · Public BenefitAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPEINCMOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $537,350 · OtherMOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SER…Individual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE TOWN OF SALTVILLE: $87,670 · OtherTHE TOWN OF SALTVILLEATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTOWN OF MARION: $65,750 · OtherTOWN OF MARIONPROJECT CROSSROADS: $53,175 · OtherVIRGINIA FREE MOBILE HEALTH SERVICES DBA REMOTE AREA MEDICAL - VIRGINIA: $49,060 · OtherSMYTH COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD: $47,957 · Other+10 more: $191,742 · Other+10 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS: $393,965 · EducationSMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $356,995 · PhilanthropyMEL LEAMAN FREE CLINIC OF SMYTH CO: $158,071 · HealthMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC: $102,000 · HealthFREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT: $23,550 · Human ServicesVIRGINIAS KIDS BELONG: $10,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $22,500 · Arts & Culture
Public Benefit$3,000,000Other$1,232,704Education$393,965Philanthropy$356,995Health$260,071Human Services$33,550Arts & Culture$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR HOPEINC: $3,000,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetMOUNT ROGERS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $537,350 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS: $393,965 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $356,995 over 2y, 37% of budgetMEL LEAMAN FREE CLINIC OF SMYTH CO: $158,071 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMISSION DENTAL VIRGINIA INC: $102,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT CROSSROADS: $53,175 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetVIRGINIA FREE MOBILE HEALTH SERVICES DBA REMOTE AREA MEDICAL - VIRGINIA: $49,060 over 3y, 17% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFREE FOUNDATION FOR REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT & ENDOWMENT: $23,550 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $22,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $19,565 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBLAND MINISTRY CENTER: $13,990 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIAS KIDS BELONG: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

Virginia Health Care …Delta Dental of Virgi…The Genan FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Virginia Health Care FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia Health Care Foundation · Delta Dental of Virginia Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smyth County Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smyth County Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Smyth County Charitable Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Smyth County Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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