· Private foundation
Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MY FATHER'S CLOSET | $20,000 |
| WARREN COUNTY BOOKS FROM BIRTH | $20,000 |
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +76%
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Newell Brands Community Fund Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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