· Public charity
Womens Fund of Smith County
The women's fund leverages the philanthropic capacity of women as a catalyst for positive change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $248k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS | $100,000 |
| EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER | $79,694 |
| HOPE HAVEN | $68,640 |
| UNBOUND NOW | $30,000 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC | $18,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +76% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY4× · 2020–2023 · $252k · revenue +38%
- PPPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP4× · 2018–2023 · $230k · revenue +61%
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE2× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +287%
Funded once
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Smith Countyone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -1%
- ETEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMone grant, 2019 · $100k
- NSNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONSone grant, 2021 · $98k · revenue +18%
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.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
Pregnancy counseling
Provide rehabilitation services and guidance to follow Christian principles to restore teens and young adults sufferning from addictions and trauma and ultimately placing them back into society as positive contributors
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Faith-based counseling and community education
To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Texas Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. 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.
26 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. 26 of the 29 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 CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
- Who funds Christian Womens Job Corps of Tyler Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Smith County ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Tyler Achievement Center for Kids Starbrite Therapeutic Equestrian Center ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds LIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEP ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TAPKARD INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Health Care System ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNBOUND NOW ↗
- Who funds GOLD NETWORK OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds For the Silent ↗
- Who funds LIVING ALTERNATIVES 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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Riter Family Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Etx Successor System · Hoeffner Foundation · United Way of Smith County · Mother Frances Hospital Regional Health Care Center · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · Hibbs Family 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 Womens Fund of Smith County 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.