About Speedway Children's Charities
Our mission, through God's grace, is to uplift the lives of children in need by fueling meaningful change through collaborative partnerships, strategic grant funding, and unwavering support for programs that ensure health, safety, education and joy are within.
Focus Areas
Child welfareMedical support (illness, dental, therapy, disability)Education (tutoring, literacy, after-school programs)Food securitySupport for orphans, foster youth and homeless childrenAnti-sex-trafficking supportVolunteer engagement
Who They Fund
students / learnersindividuals experiencing critical needs or crises
Funding Style
program support (programmatic funding)
About Speedway Children's Charities
Speedway Children's Charities directs its giving through chapter-based programs for children’s organizations, with grants aimed at critical needs, medical care, education, food security, and support for children facing trafficking, homelessness, foster care, or orphanhood. In 2025, its Charlotte Metro chapter distributed $2 million, while the Nashville program gave over $240,000 and the Texas program gave over $250,000, showing a pattern of place-based funding rather than a single national pool. The foundation’s recent grant list shows repeated support for nonprofits working with children in need. Present Age Ministries in Concord received $125,000 in 2025 for program support after a $150,000 grant in 2024. Safe House Project in Charlotte received multiple awards across 2023 to 2025, including $110,000 in 2024 and $100,000 in 2025. Other large awards went to Wilkes Community Partnership for Children in North Wilkesboro and Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation in Charlotte. Across the recent grants, Speedway Children's Charities appears to favor organizations delivering direct services for children and families, especially in communities where its chapters operate. The grants also show recurring support for several recipients over multiple years, along with one-time chapter awards for medical, educational, and critical-needs work.
What Speedway Children's Charities Funds
Child welfare is a core thread in Speedway Children's Charities’ funding. The foundation gave $115,000 in 2025 to Wilkes Community Partnership for Children in North Wilkesboro for program support, and its chapter programs also fund homelessness, foster care, orphans, and anti-trafficking work. Medical support appears alongside that child-welfare focus. In 2025, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation in Charlotte received $100,000 for program support, while Piedmont Residential Development Center in Kannapolis received $75,000 for program support in the same year after a $75,000 medical grant in 2024. Education is another recurring area. Power Cross Ministries in Statesville received $80,000 in 2024 for educational work and $50,000 in 2025 for program support, and the chapter-level programs also reference tutoring, literacy, and after-school services. Food insecurity and critical-needs services also show up in the program descriptions and in grants such as the 2025 award to NC Baptist State Conventionwilkes Ministry of Hope in North Wilkesboro.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.5M
Total Assets
$1.2M
Total Revenue
$5.4M
Total Expenses
$5.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $15K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$15K
Geographic Reach
Regional13 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
MARCUS SMITH
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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