· Private foundation
William and Janita Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $413k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elijah Rising | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Safe Families for Children WI | $35,000 |
| Naomis House | $30,000 |
| Alongsiders International Inc | $30,000 |
| Embrace Grace | $25,000 |
| Mount Zion Baptist Charitable | $25,000 |
| The GLO House | $25,000 |
| Agape House | $20,000 |
| House of Providence | $15,000 |
| Burlington Transitional Living Center Inc | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Project 82 Kenya | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Zoe International | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HWHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2018–2021 · $138k · revenue +38%
- SFSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE5× · 2018–2022 · $137k · revenue +358%
- EGEmbrace Grace Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $137k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- AIAlongsiders International Incone grant, 2024 · $60k
- ZLZOE LIFE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2018 · $38k
1000 Generations Incone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
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.
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
The bridge 2 home is a safe and loving home for young girls and young women who were victimized by sex trafficking. at the bridge they can find healing and growth and can experience the love of a perfect heavenly father who pursues them.
The organization provides housing medical care education and loving support for homeless children in peru. the home is located in arequipa peru. the organization houses approximately 50 children and assists children no longer residing at…
To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.
Provide a home and care for unwed pregnant girls
See schedule oour mission is the integration of women and children into society, transformed through the power of healing and complete discipleship and vocational training within a safe, loving, and serving community. our vision is to see…
501 (c)(3) public charity
To assist in the rescue and care of abandoned and orphaned children in the developing world and to advocate for them by creating awareness of their plight within Christian churches.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 46 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 Embers International ↗
- Who funds HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 82 KENYA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds HEAL AND THRIVE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE GIRL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds 1000 Generations Inc ↗
- Who funds ALONGSIDERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds C24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF PROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON TRANSITIONAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ZOE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Kunes Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William and Janita Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Janita Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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