· Private foundation
The Smith Children Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWEST OHIO | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS OPPOSING PIT EXPANSION | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO CINCINNATI | $4,000 |
| BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE | $3,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES OF DURHAM | $2,500 |
| NC WARN | $2,000 |
| A SPECIAL BLEND | $2,000 |
| PARTNERS ON HEALTH | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| PAWS4EVER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENSBORO | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| HABAT JEWISH CENTER OF GREENSBORO | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Urban Ministries of Durham Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +35%
Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +4%
NC WARN INC5× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NWNC Warnone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BSBnai Shalom Day Schoolone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SFSECU Family House AT UNC Hospitalsone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The mission of pej is to promote understanding and protection of urban wetlands, enhance community pride, and encourage economic development.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
PORCH-Durham works in partnership with a variety of Durham county nonprofit and community based organizations to identify children and families most at risk of hunger. We provide shelf-stable foods from our monthly neighborhood food…
NC has clean & safe air, water & soil.
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
Support access to basic public health amenities safe drinking water sewer lines housing streets sidewalks and storm-water management for primarily African American and Native American heritage communities: West End White Level Kimrey Road…
Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
Winston-salem, nc, the principal city in forsyth county, has multiple "food deserts,- or residential areas where there are no full-service grocery stores, offering produce and other fresh foods, within a radius of one mile. these "food…
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
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 36 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 NEIGHBORS OPPOSING PIT EXPANSION ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds NC WARN INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROGER'S EUBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PORCH INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds A SPECIAL BLEND INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
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 Leon Levine Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Smith Children Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Smith Children Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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