· Private foundation
Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $144,924 |
| KIDS OF THE COMMUNITY | $100,359 |
| CHRIST FAMILY CHURCH | $50,000 |
| WESTWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST | $37,500 |
| WARREN ARTS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $30,000 |
| MCMINNVILLE SPECIAL GAMES | $26,000 |
| WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI | $20,000 |
| MY FATHER'S CLOSET | $20,000 |
| WARREN COUNTY BOOKS FROM BIRTH | $20,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRY | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- KOKids of the Community6× · 2017–2024 · $494k · revenue +107% · 49% of their budget
- SNSTARS NASHVILLE4× · 2017–2022 · $200k · revenue +272%
- HHHelping Hands Ministry6× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GREENWAY INCone grant, 2017 · $43k
- WAWH AND EDGAR MAGNESS LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $35k
- MCMAGNESS COMMUNITY HOUSE LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Ministry
Food Pantry for the Community to provide food and other household items, including back to school items for Kids.
Tends to the needs of the local homeless community by providing food and hygiene products. provides a family atmosphere with movie nights and bikegiveaways for local disadvbantages youths
Serves at-risk youth by teaching life skills, healthy eating habits and physical fitness. We provide service to the youth 3 days per week, 2 hours per day. We provide weekly year-round programs for youth.
To influence fatherless young men and women to reach their potential through a relationship with jesus christ by utlizing community resources.
We offer 5 classes to the community Anger Management Alcohol Dependency Parenting Finance Drug Classes Started Greater Purpose this year. This is where we go to members in the community and help with things that may need to be done around…
Provide emergency food and clothing
A Christ-Centered organization dedicated to improving the lives of children in distress while strengthening families and inspiring the next generation to serve
The COGIC Center has successfully provided 1000 meals per month for underprivileged youth ages 6-18 years of age. This is an after school program from the hours of 3;30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Additional the COGIC Center provides after school…
To provide powerful and effective science-based prevention services to youth ages 5-17 through homework assistance, tutoring, and after school programs and summer camp activities utilizing certified teachers and youth counselors, licensed…
To provide a food pantry, a community Christmas gift program and to supply basic school supplies, toiletries and clothing to low income families in our area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcminnville Special Games and the most unlike its peers is Casa Works Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 Kids of the Community ↗
- Who funds STARS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Ministry ↗
- Who funds WARREN ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARK THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER 31ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds MCMINNVILLE SPECIAL GAMES ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCMINNVILLE ROTARY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Solomon Program ↗
- Who funds Young Men United ↗
- Who funds CASA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MCMINNVILLE 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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Newell Brands Community Fund 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 Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust 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.