· Private foundation
The Ted & Joyce Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Nazareth Evangelical College | $25,000 |
| Hope International | $25,000 |
| Untold | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $10,000 |
| Talita Cumi | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Ethos 360 | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of The Ted & Joyce Smith Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 33%.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2018–2024 · $61k · revenue +163%
- UIUntold Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $42k · revenue +14%
- HHOPE582× · 2020–2021 · $42k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TTEAMone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SPSEARCH PARTYone grant, 2023 · $45k · 35% of their budget
- PCPregnacy Care Centerone grant, 2018 · $39k
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
e3 Partners Ministry (e3) endeavors to equip believers worldwide with tools and training designed to help evangelize their communities in order to establish thriving churches.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
Assisting national Christian leaders around the world.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SEARCH PARTY ↗
- Who funds Untold Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE58 ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SINAPIS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds Alongside Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Great Commission ↗
- Who funds Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc ↗
- Who funds TALITA CUMI ↗
- Who funds LEADS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING LIVES INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · First Fruit Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ted & Joyce Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ted & Joyce Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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