· Public charity
The Steve Smith Family Foundation
The Steve Smith Foundation focuses on the mental health and wellness of families and underserved communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Charlotte Hornets Foundation | $5,000 |
| Vanguard Charitable | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- P6Project 658 Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $239k · revenue +123%
- CHCHARLOTTE HORNETS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $29k · revenue +65%
- CFCharlotte Family Housing2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $11k
- THTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +26%
- EIEVERFI INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Rehabilitation, Recovery, Restoration & Resilience for individuals, families, & communities impacted by domestic violence.
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.
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…
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.
To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.
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…
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…
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
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.
Eradicating housing inequities for people experiencing homelessness
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 41 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 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 Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A BLOCK INC ↗
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- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Steve Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steve Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
How this is measured
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