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The Smith Martini Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABCCM | $200,000 |
| Set Free Monterey Bay | $66,231 |
| Rancho Cieto | $20,211 |
| Oklahoma Tennis Foundation | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +152% since the first grant, against +111% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TCTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $265k · revenue +110%
- LTLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES5× · 2019–2023 · $156k · revenue +168%
- SFSet Free Monterey Bay2× · 2024–2025 · $81k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TCTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INone grant, 2021 · $58k
- FPFamily Place of Transylvania Countygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +111%
- SVST VINCENT SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.
Our continuing mission is to change the lives of those who suffer from alcohol and drug addiction.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Navigating the journey to healing for all affected by sexual, relational, and family trauma.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.
Provide services for transgender youth and adults
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
Trec community investors joins forces with underserved communities to invest in the disinvested, energize neighborhoods, and change lives. through access to flexible capital and real estate expertise, we make an unwavering commitment to…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transylvania County Rescue Squad Brevard and the most unlike its peers is Set Free Monterey Bay. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 TRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Set Free Monterey Bay ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Place of Transylvania County ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Tennis Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD BREVARD ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE BOOSTERS 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Smith Martini 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, a single department, or state — 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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