Iowa · Private foundation
Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $224k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,103
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $224k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $488k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $296k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $187k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $188k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $131k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $177k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Webster County Conservation | $75,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Blanden Charitable Foundation | $69,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Fort Dodge Historical Foundation | $57,300 | 2 | 13% |
| Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Comedia Musica Players | $40,000 | 4 | 24% |
| Hawkeye Community Theatre | $35,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Stage Door Productions | $22,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Fort Dodge Choral Society | $17,645 | 3 | n/a |
| Shellabration Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $6,111 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Webster County Conservation | $75,000 | 2 | 34% |
| Blanden Charitable Foundation | $69,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Fort Dodge Historical Foundation | $57,300 | 2 | 13% |
| Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Comedia Musica Players | $40,000 | 4 | 24% |
| Hawkeye Community Theatre | $35,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Stage Door Productions | $22,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Fort Dodge Choral Society | $17,645 | 3 | n/a |
| Shellabration Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $6,111 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Street Fort Dodge Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Athletics for Education and Success Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Lords Cupboard Community Pantry | $3,500 | 1 | 2% |
| North Central Iowa Ag in the Classroom | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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: The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation · United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust
- How much does Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust give?
- Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $223,853 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (56%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Webster County Conservation ($75k), Blanden Charitable Foundation ($69k), Fort Dodge Historical Foundation ($57k).
- Does Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation, United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust based?
- Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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