· Private foundation
The Sybil and White Smith 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JACKSON ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| FAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FARM STAND TOGETHER | $2,500 |
| PRIDE OF ATMORE | $2,000 |
| FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 19 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2020 · $66k · revenue +46%
- BCBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +427%
- POPRIDE OF ATMORE INC2× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +10%
- PFPARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON (OAKLEDGE FOR ALL - AUTISM PLAYGROUND)one grant, 2019 · $50k
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +41%
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.
Acquire, preserve, protect, restore, manage & improve alabama lands & water of ecological, scientific, scenic, wildlife or recreational significance. conduct, sponsor, and encourage, engage in ecological study & research. support…
To facilitate the advancement of education and science as it relates to identified vulnerabilities along coastal alabama associated with the environment, society and the economy and to the end of supporting creation, development and…
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To promote tourism and economic development in alabamato promote natural resource conservation
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
The foundation's missionis to provide assistance to the alabama bicentennial commission, which supports, created and executes events and activities that commemorate the stories of alabama's people, places and path to statehood.
The alabama state parks foundation was formed in 2018 to raise dollars to supplement state funding of the alabama state parks. the foundation is led by a board of directors who seek to mobilize a statewide network of citizen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daphne Search & Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 35% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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. 43 of the 68 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE OF ATMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds Baldwin County Youth Orchestra ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WE R HOPE ↗
- Who funds BARTON ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMILLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Mw Smith Jr Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Rc Craft Family Foundation · Impact 100 Baldwin County · Mapp Family Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Lillian C McGowin Foundation · Nan H Altmayer Charitable Trust Regions Bank Trustee · Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc · The Robert and Joanna Cunningham Charitable Foundation 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 Sybil and White Smith 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.
- Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- We R Hope — 0% of income from government
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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