Texas · Public charity
Womens Fund of Smith County
The women's fund leverages the philanthropic capacity of women as a catalyst for positive change.
- $287k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $42,620
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Womens Fund of Smith County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $283k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $296k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $401k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $380k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $255k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $341k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $301k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $229k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Smith County | $275,750 | 5 | 2% |
| Path - People Attempting to Help | $230,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Mentoring Alliance | $200,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Christian Womens Job Corps of Tyler Inc | $150,702 | 3 | 15% |
| Tyler Achievement Center for Kids Starbrite Therapeutic Equestrian Center | $150,000 | 3 | 8% |
| East Texas Crisis Center Inc | $136,783 | 3 | 3% |
| East Texas Food Bank Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 59% |
| East Texas Veterans Community Council Camp V | $108,640 | 2 | 8% |
| East Texas Symphony Orchestra Association Inc | $103,875 | 3 | 4% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Smith County | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Womens Fund of Smith County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Womens Fund of Smith County
- How much does Womens Fund of Smith County give?
- Womens Fund of Smith County reported 7 grants totaling $286,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Womens Fund of Smith County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (17%), Crime & Legal (10%).
- Who are Womens Fund of Smith County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childrens Advocacy Center of Smith County ($276k), Path - People Attempting to Help ($230k), Mentoring Alliance ($200k).
- Does Womens Fund of Smith County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Fund of Smith County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Texas Communities Foundation, Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation, The Junior League of Tyler Inc.
- Where is Womens Fund of Smith County based?
- Womens Fund of Smith County is based in TX.
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