· Private foundation
William R & Sara Babb Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of WILLIAM R & SARA BABB 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A FRIEND'S HOUSE | $45,000 |
| THE FOOD PANTRY | $40,000 |
| HANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,756 |
| JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE BRIDGE WELLNESS SOUTH | $12,000 |
| CROSSWALK | $8,000 |
| FERST READERS OF HENRY CO | $4,200 |
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, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- AFA FRIENDS HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +185%
- TJTHE JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +0%
- HCHENRY COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +60% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -33%
- FCFLINT CIRCUIT COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE INC DBA HAVEN HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +23%
- HOHANDS OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Please see schedule o for the organization's mission statement.
To raise funds and provide financial assistance to henry county hospital, inc. all funds raised are to be used for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purpose of the hospital in providing health care to the…
To assist in meeting the healthcare needs of the community.
Johns hopkins medical services corporation provides healthcare services to the population of the us family health plan (usfhp).
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
Hhcs has undertaken two major kinds of activities in support of hamilton health center. hhccs acquired and completed the rehabilitation of a major facility in the city of harrisburg. hhccs owns, and is responsible for, facility management…
The mission of family health center of marshfield, inc. is to provide access to high quality health care services for the underserved and to enhance the health of our communities.
The mission of the henry county youth services bureau services bureau is to provide counseling to troubled youth in henry county, so the youth can become responsible for their own actions and can be able to function in a socially…
Provision of home health services including community outreach programs with an emphasis on detection and prevention of common illnesses and disease.
Healthcare related services
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bridge Wellness South Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Bedford School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 37 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 A FRIENDS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING HENRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT CIRCUIT COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE INC DBA HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE WELLNESS SOUTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Bedford School 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: The Taylor Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ed and Claude Fortson Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Servant Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 William R & Sara Babb 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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