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Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips 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.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$23k25%
FY202311$55k27%
FY20229$50k22%
FY20218$50k0%
FY20209$51k11%
FY201910$40k20%
FY20189$40k33%
FY201711$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$147kHealth$72kArts & Culture$52kPhilanthropy$30kRecreation & Sports$25kAnimals$22kHuman Services$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint James School$84,00080%
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$56,00060%
College of Charleston Foundation$20,00020%
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art$19,50080%
The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc$15,50080%
Charleston Library Society$12,00060%
South Carolina Aquarium$9,00040%
Charleston Day Schoolinc$6,50020%
Therapeutic Adventures Inc$5,00017%
Louie's Kids Inc$4,50019%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$2,00030%
Bridge Between Animal Rescue$2,00013%
Almost Home Feline Refuge Inc$2,0002n/a
Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding Inc$1,50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint James School: $84,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMedical University of South Carolina Foundation: $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of Charleston Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art: $19,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $15,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Day Schoolinc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTherapeutic Adventures Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLouie's Kids Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Between Animal Rescue: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCharleston Area Therapeutic Riding Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Richard and Susan Leadem Family · Guffey Family Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc

How much does Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc give?
Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Saint James School ($84k), Medical University of South Carolina Foundation ($56k), College of Charleston Foundation ($20k).
Does Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Richard and Susan Leadem Family, Guffey Family Foundation.
Where is Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc based?
Wilbur S Smith and Stephanie E Smith-Phillips Foundation Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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