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The Kirby Smart Family Foundation Inc

The kirby smart family foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and resources for deserving organizations throughout the state of georgia and southeast.

$40k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Health$322kPhilanthropy$166kRecreation & Sports$110kEducation$97kHuman Services$61kYouth Development$31kReligion$28kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$151k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES-ATHENS$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHARE THE MAGIC: $10k → 13%SHARE THE MAGIC: $10k → 13%SHARE THE MAGIC: $8k → 13%ATHENS YMCA: $20k → 27%ATHENS YMCA: $8k → 27%HOPE 139 HOUSE: $5k → 6%ATHENS YMCA: $8k → 27%LYDIA'S PLACE: $5k → 27%FAMILY CONNECTION: $5k → 27%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$520k · 16 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
21

Total granted

$520k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+90%

Still filing today

94%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2018–2020 · $70k · revenue +100%
  • CS
    CAMP SUNSHINE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $68k · revenue +33%
  • ES
    Extra Special People Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $43k · revenue +625%

Funded once

  • DM
    DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +11%
  • AA
    APPARO ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue ×111
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +163%
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
Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

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2
Advocates for Children Inc

Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…

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3
Kidspeace National Centers of Georgia

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Human Services
4
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
5
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
6
Family House of West Georgia Inc

Family house of west georgia provides a home away from home for families of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. the house gives children a place to play after a long day at the hospital, parents and…

Health
7
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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8
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
9
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."

Religion
10
Peachtree Christian Health Inc

To support caregivers and their loved ones by providing a compassionate care center offering safe, engaging, and reliable adult services.

Human Services
11
Creative Community Services Inc

Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…

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12
The Arc of Southwest Georgia Inc

Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connection Communities in Schools of Athens Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oconee Area Resource Council 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

36 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. 36 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP SUNSHINE INC: $67,500 · OtherCAMP SUNSHINE INCExtra Special People Inc: $43,000 · OtherExtra Special People IncFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES-ATHENS: $40,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETE…BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $38,397 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALAB…+8 more: $42,556 · Other+8 moreCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $41,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF A…NAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION…SHEPHERD CENTER INC: $28,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INCTHE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · HealthTHE CANCER FOUNDATION INCSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $20,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY I…Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $16,000 · HealthLighthouse Family Retreat …Cure Childhood Cancer Inc: $10,000 · HealthVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $166,023 · PhilanthropyAthens Area Community …FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF …DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNTOWN MINIS…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Trach Me Away: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KUDZU INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $36,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG M…SHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesSHARE THE M…HOPE 139 HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE 139 HO…LYDIAS PLACE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLYDIAS PLAC…GATEWAY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY HOU…FAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONN…FRIENDS WITH JESUS INC: $28,000 · ReligionSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $18,000 · EducationOCONEE AREA RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$231,453Health$201,000Philanthropy$166,023Youth Development$110,500Human Services$84,000Religion$28,000Education$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $166,023 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $67,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetExtra Special People Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $36,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHARE THE MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS WITH JESUS INC: $28,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF GA: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN RECIPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ATHENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetATHENS AREA EMERGENCY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOCONEE AREA RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHOPE 139 HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE ATHENS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR DISADVANTAGE AND DISABILITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATHENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Trach Me Away: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE & HOPE HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KUDZU INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristian City Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Athens Area Community…Georgia Power Foundat…Tr Lois & Lucy Lampki…Frances Wood Wilson F…Jackson Emc Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Walton Electric Trust…Tr Uw Charles I BrananTuw Thomas H PittsCommunity Foundation …The Georgia Club Foun…The Newland Family Fo…
Athens Area Community Foundation IncGA40.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Walton Electric Trust Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Georgia Club Foundation Inc · The Newland Family Foundation Inc

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 The Kirby Smart Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirby Smart Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 39 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $7k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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