· Private foundation
The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of THE WILSON L SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION THE SMITH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,238,400 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #4162× · 2020–2021 · $35k · revenue +28%
THE BADDOUR CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +4%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NC EDUCATIONAL FDone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- FFFAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2020 · $346k · revenue -27% · 84% of their budget
- NTNC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $335k · revenue +67%
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.
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
To serve the indigent.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
To provide monetary support to the rowan county public library.
Provides medical, dental and pharmaceutical care to uninsured or underserved rowan county residents using paid and volunteer medical professionals and skilled support staff.
Provide prevention & intervention services targeting at-risk youth in rowan county
To provide relief of poverty, unemployment and underemployment for persons in rowan county caused in part by the substantial job loss related to the downfall of textile manufacturing and other manufacturing industries
Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
Operation of a public charter school
The organization's mission is to gather like-minded clergy from around the world in order to promote harmony and wholeness within the communities that they each represent.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smart Start Rowan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds NC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN COUNTY NC INC ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROWAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 ↗
- Who funds THE BADDOUR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER GUARDIANS INC ↗
- Who funds GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WEST ROWAN BIBLE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SMART START ROWAN INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Rowan County United Way Inc · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the 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.
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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