· Private foundation
Wilbur S Smith and Margaret P Smith Foundation Inc
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: 44% of WILBUR S SMITH AND MARGARET P SMITH FOUNDATION INC’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENWOOD | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES OF GREENWOOD | $4,000 |
| GALLAGER' HEROES FALLEN OFFICER'S F | $4,000 |
| ALMOST HOME FELINE REFUGE INC | $3,500 |
| GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE | $3,000 |
| THE HEART OF LCAC | $3,000 |
| HOME FOR HEROES | $3,000 |
| CONGAREE RIVERKEEPER | $2,500 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF GREENWOOD COUNTY | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $2,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GREATER GREENWOOD UNITED MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| PAWS ANIMAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Wilbur S Smith and Margaret P Smith Foundation Inc’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, 69% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less 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 +64% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENWOOD8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +32%
- GPGREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +97%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SRSELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +67%
- BABEYOND ABUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +26%
- IFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -42%
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.
The mission of garden rescues inc is to rescue small breed dogs who are homeless, abused, or at risk for euthanasia at kill shelters. we will provide medical care as well as a loving and safe environment for the dogs while we seek to find…
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehomes abused, unwanted and abandoned companion animals.Southern Comfort was founded in 2001 in Savannah, Georgia, to provide shelter and find…
The center is devoted to the rehabilitation and release of orphaned and injured wildlife. the center also provides outreach programs focused on rehabilitation and humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts.
Foundation to invest legacy gifts restricted to benefit greenwood pathway house inc (ein 45-0833715) located in greenwood, sc. pathway house's mission is to help homeless persons navigate a pathway to physical, financial, and social…
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
The organization is dedicated to saving pets from certain death in shelters, prevent animal neglect and cruelty, and reduce the overpopulation of unwanted pets.
A non-profit organization dedicated to lowering euthanasia rates and promoting adoption in north carolina, aspires to foster lifelong connections between well-deserving dogs and families, placing them in successful, nurturing homes.…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…
Animal Welfare and Rescue.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Greenwood United Ministry and the most unlike its peers is International Fellowship Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENWOOD ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREENWOOD UNITED MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF GREENWOOD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chapmans Dachshund Rescue ↗
- Who funds PAWS ANIMAL WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds CONGAREE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carolina Poodle Rescue ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND ABUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MEG'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREENWOOD PARKS AND TRAILS 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.
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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 Wilbur S Smith and Margaret P Smith Foundation Inc 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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