· Private foundation
The Will Smith Charitable 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Therapy Animals of San Antonio | $50,000 |
| Love Kendall County Kids | $20,000 |
| Project Bloom | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Will Smith Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 79% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2018–2023 · $133k
- C4Christmas 4 Kids3× · 2020–2022 · $45k
- IYIndianapolis Youth Orchestra2× · 2019–2020 · $43k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PHPATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGSone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -53%
- MLMentor Leaders Incone grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue -4%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -1%
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.
We are a youth baseball team on the Island of Kaua'i. Covid pretty much killed our program and we are slowly rebuilding at young ages.
Swish Honolulu is a youth basketball team based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Comprised of exceptionally talented young athletes, Swish Honolulu is dedicated to developing their skills, fostering teamwork, and promoting a passion for basketball.
To provide instructional baseball to youth children in community.
To encourage families to develop a solid relationship with Jesus. To meet on a regular basis to develop relationships of trust and to bring healing to broken relationships. Using animals and our ranch setting for a calming atmosphere to…
Makanalanis mission is is to provide a humanitarian and religiously inspired outdoor education for youth who are disadvantaged in order to promote their well being and life outlookOffering children a chance to spend some time on a working…
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
Mini Horse Helpers' mission is to enhance the lives of at-risk children through equine assisted learning using our miniature horses. We partner with other non-profit organizations, in Fayette County Texas, to work with children with…
Enrich and enhance swimmers
Committed to maternal and family health, Surfing Moms cultivates connection and local community systems of support in diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Therapy Animals of San Antonio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lahaina Heat Baseball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 29 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 PATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds Mentor Leaders Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds HIDALGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN SPRINGS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Therapy Animals of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Youth Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Napili Canoe Club ↗
- Who funds Hearts2Honduras Inc ↗
- Who funds Love Kendall County Kids ↗
- Who funds Kinetic Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BLOOM ↗
- Who funds CHARLIES GUYS ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MAUI POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LAHAINA HEAT BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds Zenshin Daiko ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Will Smith Charitable 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.
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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