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The Steve Smith Family Foundation

The Steve Smith Foundation focuses on the mental health and wellness of families and underserved communities.

$6k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Human Services$256kPhilanthropy$35kEducation$17kHousing & Shelter$13kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$3kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charlotte Hornets Foundation$5,000
Vanguard Charitable$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Whaley Childrens Center: $2k → 16%Charlotte Family Housing: $5k → 10%House of Ruth Maryland: $5k → 19%Charlotte Family Housing: $5k → 10%NC Med Assist: $600 → 10%NC Med Assist: $400 → 10%Project 658: $97k → 10%Project 658: $70k → 10%Project 658: $46k → 10%Project 658: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$301k · 8 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
31

Total granted

$301k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

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

  • P6
    Project 658 Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $239k · revenue +123%
  • CH
    CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $29k · revenue +65%
  • CF
    Charlotte Family Housing
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • TH
    THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +26%
  • EI
    EVERFI INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
2
Durham Home Inc
3
Ruths House

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.

Crime & Legal
4
The Dwelling Place

The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.

Human Services
5
Hearts for the Invisible Charlotte Coalition

Eradicating housing inequities for people experiencing homelessness

Human Services
6
Refugee Hope Partners Inc

To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.

Human Services
7
Hubbard House Inc

Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
8
Safe Journey

To enhance empowerment, self-efficacy, safety and justice for women and their children who are victims of domestic violence, by providing free confidential support services and offering awareness and prevention education and information to…

Human Services
9
Joshua Community Connectors Inc

Joshua Community Connectors emerged as a beacon of hope within the Russell Community of West Louisville, a neighborhood brimming with potential yet often facing systemic challenges. Recognizing the unique struggles and aspirations of its…

Human Services
10
Heal Charlotte

Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…

Human Services
11
Nami - Charlotte Pka Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Guided by the experiences of those living with mental health conditions and rooted in equity, NAMI Charlotte provides advocacy, education, support and connections to resources so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness…

12
Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte

The mission of Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.We mobilize community volunteers and contractors to provide repairs that make homes safer and healthier for…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Dahlia Grove. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Project 658 Inc — $238,957 · Human ServicesProject 658 IncCharlotte Family Housing — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $9,040 · Human ServicesTurning Point Academy — $15,625 · OtherTurning Point AcademyIndividual grant recipient — $10,843 · OtherIndividual grant reci…EVERFI INC — $5,000 · OtherEVERFI INCDomestic Violence Shelter — $4,000 · OtherDomestic Violence She…Individual grant recipient — $3,082 · OtherUnited Way — $2,854 · OtherWomens Ntl football Conf — $2,500 · OtherEVERETTE BROWN BAG FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherFamily Crisis Council — $2,500 · Other+19 more — $22,023 · Other+19 moreCHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC — $28,500 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTE…VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,000 · PhilanthropyThe Arts Empowerment Project Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterDream On 3 — $1,500 · HealthEUSTRESS — $500 · HealthDahlia Grove — $1,500 · Employment
Human Services$257,997Other$70,927Philanthropy$29,500Arts & Culture$3,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Health$2,000Employment$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetProject 658 Inc — $238,957 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC — $28,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER CARE MINISTRIES — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWhaley Children's Center Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream On 3 — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuggsy Bogues Family Foundation — $1,040 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE — $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Central Carolinas Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget100 Black Men of Charlotte Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJamie Kimble Foundation for Courage — $520 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 Project 658 Inc
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Charlotte Family Housing
  • Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds The Arts Empowerment Project Inc
  • Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds ADOPT A BLOCK INC
  • Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc
  • Who funds Dahlia Grove
  • Who funds Dream On 3
  • Who funds Muggsy Bogues Family Foundation
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE
  • Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM
  • Who funds Urban League of Central Carolinas Inc
  • Who funds 100 Black Men of Charlotte Inc
  • Who funds Jamie Kimble Foundation for Courage
  • Who funds EUSTRESS

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC27.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Steve 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 19%
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Steve Smith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Steve Smith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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