· Private foundation
The Allen and Mimi Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE ALLEN AND MIMI SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $3,500 |
| TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| CHRIST THE KING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - DOTY SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MISSION AGAPE | $1,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PERMIAN BASIN | $1,500 |
| REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP | $1,040 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| THE CHRISTI CENTER | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST | $1,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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 +98% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FAFOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +122%
- TSTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +160%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- OMOXFORD MONTESSORI SCHOOLS LTDone grant, 2023 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN - MOODY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Agape and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 41 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 FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of the Permian Basin Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSION AGAPE ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTI CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Central Texas Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Allen and Mimi Smith Family Foundation 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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