| Key | Value |
| Action needed | Manual search of Carter's inbox for correspondence with this contact. |
| Alignment | 84/100 |
| Attio | https://app.attio.com/day-7-public-benefit-corporation/person/6f07b019-63b9-4220-9217-d67b54bcc753 |
| Best warm path | Carter → any Gathering attendee → Fred Smith directly. Fred BUILT the network; anyone in it can connect to him. Or: Carter → Josh Kwan (current Gathering president) → Fred. |
| Board of Directors (as of 10/27/2025 via GuideStar, EIN 75-2726170) | \ | Name \ | Role \ | |
| Board of Directors (as of 10/27/2025 via GuideStar, EIN 75-2726170): | Name |
| Bob Buford (deceased) | Co-founded Leadership Network; closest ministry partner |
| Carol Smith | Wife |
| Children | Two grown daughters, a son-in-law, four grandchildren |
| Christine Lee Buchholz | Vice President |
| Command Center | Active |
| Compensation | $169,575/year from The Gathering (Cause IQ 2024, as Founder) |
| Completeness | 40% — SEEN reasonable but identity needs confirmation; CELEBRATE limited; VOCABULARY needs sourcing; CURRENT thin |
| Composite Score | 87.0/100 |
| Confidence | LOW-MEDIUM (identity disambiguation needed; if correct Fred Smith, very high value) |
| Coverage | 20 → NEW BUILD \ | Data Status: DATA-MODERATE |
| Data % | 20% |
| Data Status | RICH (50,129 bytes across sources) |
| Dean Niewolny | Halftime Institute CEO |
| Denomination | Evangelical Christian |
| Direct? | YES — Carter first-degree |
| Domain | Business & Enterprise / Christian Philanthropy |
| Domain (12-domain map) | Faith Capital & Stewardship (philanthropy connector) |
| Dossier | planning/wave3-dossiers/fred-smith.md |
| Education | Denver University (undergraduate); Harvard Divinity School (graduate) |
| Fact count | 10 sourced facts |
| Faith register | DEVOUT — multi-generational faith-business family; The Gathering connection places him at the center of Christian mega-philanthropy |
| Family | Wife Carol; resides in Tyler, TX |
| First Call | Bill Hane |
| Fred Smith | Founder (still compensated) |
| Full Name | Fred Smith |
| Full name | Fred Smith |
| Harvest | planning/harvest/genesis-outreach-fred-smith.md |
| Hub | planning/command-center/24-fred-smith.md |
| Josh Kwan | CEO of The Gathering; succeeded Fred |
| Key Overlap with Genesis Network | - Josh Kwan connects to entire Praxis ecosystem (Dan Reed, Andy Crouch, Henry Kaestner, Dave Blanchard) |
| Key People | - Josh Kwan — CEO of The Gathering (since Jan 2019); co-founder of Praxis |
| Link | https://fred-smith.myday7.com |
| Lloyd Reeb | Halftime Institute; connected through Buford |
| Location | Tyler, Texas |
| Maggie Lechner | Events Director |
| Melanie Langemeier | GenNext Director |
| Military | Navy veteran |
| Mined by | C3 window, S1334 LAST RUN |
| Net Worth | Estimated $1–5M (modest relative to his network; value is NETWORK not wealth) |
| One-line Read | The founding architect of America's premier Christian philanthropy gathering — 400+ UHNW attendees, 3 generations, 40 years of trust — and the quietest, most humble kingmaker in the ecosystem |
| Ongoing | Sunday school teacher, writer (Comment Magazine), mentor, public intellectual on philanthropy |
| Open Questions | - Fred's exact age/birth year (estimated 1940s-1950s) |
| Organizational Connections | - The Gathering (founded 1985) |
| Packet | planning/excavation-packets/024-fred-smith_PACKET.md |
| Path Cost | 20.0 |
| Personalized site | https://fred-smith.myday7.com |
| Peter Drucker (deceased) | Connected through Buford |
| Prepared | 2026-06-02 \ | Session: 1290 |
| Profile | war-room/profiles/fred-smith.md |
| Rank | 210 \ | Tier: Top-300 \ | Domain: Christian Philanthropy, Convening & Mentoring |
| Search terms used | Fred Smith |
| Self-description | "I am a Sunday School teacher" |
| Slug | fred-smith |
| Source | thegathering.com/about; GuideStar profile (EIN 75-2726170, board as of 10/27/2025); Philanthropy Daily interview with Fred Smith. |
| Source Links | Dossier · Top300 · Packet · [Profile](war-room/profiles/fred- |
| Sources | - https://philanthropydaily.com/a-conversation-with-the-gathering-founder-fred-smith-part-1-of-2/ |
| Spouse | Carol Smith |
| Stated dream | Connect generous people to worthy work — be the trusted relational infrastructure through which kingdom resources flow to kingdom purposes |
| Suggested search terms | Fred Smith, company/org names from network section. |
| The Gathering Community | - 400+ philanthropists (giving $200K+/year minimum) |
| Tier | Standard |
| Timestamp | 2026-06-16T16:46Z |
| Title | Founder, The Gathering (retired from presidency end of 2018) |
| Top-300 Dossier | planning/top300/dossiers/fred-smith.md |
| Verified | - Founder of The Gathering (confirmed multiple sources) |
| Verified Path | Carter → Bill Hane → ... → David Steward Jr. → Fred Smith |
| Warm Path | Via Josh Kwan (Gathering CEO, 2-hop from Carter via Kaestner/Crouch). |
| Warm path to Genesis | VERY STRONG (if this is Gathering-connected Fred Smith) — he IS the warm path network. The Gathering's 400+ mega-donors are exactly Genesis's target community. His relational connector role means he c |
| Warmth | CLOSE |
| Why | Research profile with background, wealth, faith alignment, and engagement data. |