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Womens Fund of Smith County

The women's fund leverages the philanthropic capacity of women as a catalyst for positive change.

$287k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$625kHealth$422kCrime & Legal$261kCommunity Improvement$230kFood & Nutrition$204kYouth Development$180kArts & Culture$139kEducation$111kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$42,620
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MENTORING ALLIANCE$50,000
STARBRITE THERAPEUTIC EQUEST$50,000
CAMP TYLER FOUNDATION$47,345
CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS$42,620
ARC OF SMITH COUNTY$38,520
GOLD NETWORK OF EAST TEXAS$31,000
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$23,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATH: $60k → 12%PATH: $60k → 12%PATH: $60k → 12%PATH: $50k → 12%THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $50k → 12%THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $50k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $80k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $47k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS: $36k → 12%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 13 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$1.8M
$923k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $276k · revenue +9%
  • PP
    PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP
    4× · 2018–2023 · $230k · revenue +61%
  • MA
    MENTORING ALLIANCE
    3× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +287%

Funded once

  • ET
    EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMM
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Smith County
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • MC
    MOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Texas Community Counseling

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,…

Human Services
3
Fort Worth Teen Challenge Inc

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

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4
Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services
5
Ocarc

Providing employment and job training service for mentally challenged individuals in southeast texas.

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6
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center Inc

To bring hope and healing while working together to break the cycle of child abuse.

Human Services
7
Wise County Domestic Violence Task Force

To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.

Crime & Legal
8
South Texas Christian Ministries Medina County Christian Job Corps

To provide actionable, compassionate, healing services and referrals to people who are experiencing or have experienced sexually related trauma

Philanthropy
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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10
Texas Inmate Families Association

Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy.

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11
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
12
Mission Texarkana Inc

The center is a care provider rendering life sustaining assistance to the indigent and job training and placement for able bodied clients withouth regard to religious preference, political affiliation, sex, race, handicap, or other…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 31 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $230,000 · Human ServicesPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMP…EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $136,783 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS CRISIS CE…EAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $100,000 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS ORPHAN CA…MEALS ON WHEELS: $36,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesMOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC: $100,000 · HealthMOSAIC COUNSELI…NEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $97,500 · HealthNEXT STEP COMMU…BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $86,980 · HealthBETHESDA HEALTH…Cook Children's Health Care System: $50,000 · HealthCook Children's…GOLD NETWORK OF EAST TEXAS: $43,012 · HealthGOLD NETWORK OF…CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY: $275,750 · Crime & LegalCHILDRENS ADVO…TAPKARD INC: $76,240 · Crime & LegalTAPKARD INC+1 more: $8,500 · Crime & LegalEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMM: $100,000 · OtherEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE: $72,664 · OtherALZHEIMERS ALLIANCECAMP TYLER FOUNDATION: $47,345 · OtherCAMP TYLER FOUNDATIONTHE ARC OF SMITH COUNTY: $38,520 · OtherFIRST TEE OF GREATER TYLER: $31,519 · OtherTyler Achievement Center for Kids Starbrite Therapeutic Equestrian Center: $150,000 · OtherTyler Achievement Center for Kids …TYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $60,758 · OtherTYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI…LITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS: $50,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE…EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V: $108,640 · OtherEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUN…Habitat for Humanity of Smith County: $100,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Smith Coun…LIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEP: $97,323 · OtherLIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEPChristian Womens Job Corps of Tyler Inc: $150,702 · Arts & CultureChristian W…EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $103,875 · Arts & CultureEAST TEXAS …DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY P…MENTORING ALLIANCE: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORING…UNBOUND NOW: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNBOUND N…EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $48,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$508,783Health$377,492Crime & Legal$360,490Other$856,769Arts & Culture$289,577Youth Development$230,000Food & Nutrition$168,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY: $275,750 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $230,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetChristian Womens Job Corps of Tyler Inc: $150,702 over 3y, 15% of budgetTyler Achievement Center for Kids Starbrite Therapeutic Equestrian Center: $150,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $136,783 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V: $108,640 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetEAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $103,875 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Smith County: $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetEAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $100,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $97,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLIFEMARK MINISTRIES DBA NEXT STEP: $97,323 over 1y, 55% of budgetBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $86,980 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTAPKARD INC: $76,240 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $60,758 over 1y, 24% of budgetCook Children's Health Care System: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF TYLER DBA PAVE EAST TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $48,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGOLD NETWORK OF EAST TEXAS: $43,012 over 2y, 11% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $36,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFor the Silent: $8,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

East Texas Communitie…Ben and Maytee Fisch …The Junior League of …Riter Family Foundati…A S Genecov FoundationEtx Successor SystemHoeffner FoundationUnited Way of Smith C…Mother Frances Hospit…The Louis and Peaches…The Rogers FoundationHibbs Family Foundati…
East Texas Communities FoundationTX38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Womens Fund of Smith County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womens Fund of Smith County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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