· Private foundation
The Smith Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA | $9,000 |
| HOMELESS NO MORE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOCUS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA FILM SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CEDAR MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $5,000 |
| OVERTON PARK SHELL | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGESMEMPHIS ALLIES | $3,000 |
| GOLDEN CROSS SENIOR MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| LIVING WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- RCRICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue -59%
- RCRICHLAND CO PUBLIC EDUCATION PTRS2× · 2022–2023 · $40k
- HHHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue -15%
Funded once
- CHCAESARS HEAD HERITAGE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -60%
- WRWomen's Rights and Empowermentone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.
Create a nationally recognized fine arts festival that enhances quality of life and economic vitality in south carolina.
Charleston Literary Festival, Inc. produces a curated, annual program of events with a distinctly international flavor in the historic setting of Charleston, South Carolina. It brings together world class authors and speakers on a variety…
Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…
Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.
The mission of the south carolina new play festival is to develop new theatrical works and present an annual festival of new works by playwrights, lyricists, composers, and variety artists. we present readings of new plays and musicals,…
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
Our mission is to encourage giving, inspire action, and improve lives in south georgia through local funds created by individuals, families, businesses, and non-profits in south georgia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Focus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caesars Head Heritage Fund. 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 30 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 RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE OVERTON PARK SHELL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds Columbia Film Society ↗
- Who funds CAESARS HEAD HERITAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds The American Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CROSS SENIOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC ↗
- Who funds SISTERCARE 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The 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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