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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
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$8.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Steve Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$5k0%
FY20223$7k67%
FY20213$6k67%
FY202011$64k73%
FY201911$126k64%
FY201810$48k70%
FY201713$110kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
RI
MO
MD
NC
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project 658 Inc$238,95745%
Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc$28,50053%
Charlotte Family Housing$10,00020%
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$5,00010%
Everfi Inc$5,0001n/a
The Arts Empowerment Project Inc$3,0001n/a
Shelter Care Ministries$3,00020%
Everette Brown Bag Foundation$2,5001n/a
Whaley Children's Center Inc$2,00010%
Adopt a Block Inc$2,0002n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of The Steve Smith Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project 658 Inc$238,95745%
Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc$28,50053%
Charlotte Family Housing$10,00020%
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$5,00010%
Everfi Inc$5,0001n/a
The Arts Empowerment Project Inc$3,0001n/a
Shelter Care Ministries$3,00020%
Everette Brown Bag Foundation$2,5001n/a
Whaley Children's Center Inc$2,00010%
Adopt a Block Inc$2,0002n/a
Dream On 3$1,50020%
Dahlia Grove$1,5001n/a
Muggsy Bogues Family Foundation$1,04011%
MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist$1,00020%
Nc State University$1,0001n/a
Urban League of Central Carolinas Inc$1,00010%
100 Black Men of Charlotte Inc$1,00010%
Jamie Kimble Foundation for Courage$52010%
Eustress$5001n/a

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Steve Smith Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $1,000 over 2y, 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

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

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.

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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.

About The Steve Smith Family Foundation

How much does The Steve Smith Family Foundation give?
The Steve Smith Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $6,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Steve Smith Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (70%), Philanthropy (9%), Education (5%).
Who are The Steve Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Project 658 Inc ($239k), Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc ($29k), Charlotte Family Housing ($10k).
Does The Steve Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Steve Smith Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Presbyterian Hospital, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.
Where is The Steve Smith Family Foundation based?
The Steve Smith Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 41 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-PF 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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