How much does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation give?

Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (14%), Animals (14%).

Does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Circle Bar Foundation, Mays Family Foundation.

Where is Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation based?

Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation is based in OH.

Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation

Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation at a glance

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Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation

Q: Who are Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Navy Seal Foundation Inc ($48k), Yorkminster Presbyterian Preschool Yorkminster Presbyterian Church ($26k), Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio ($15k).

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$119kArts & Culture$61kAnimals$60kHealth$56kReligion$33kFood & Nutrition$31kInternational$13kScience & Tech$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$731k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PARK VIEW 19 SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$5,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION	$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$4,500
LEESBURG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$4,000
SAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE	$3,500
WONDERS AND WORRIES	$3,500
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE	$3,000
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY	$3,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND	$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN (DONOR SERVICES TEAM)	$3,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK	$2,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER	$2,000
YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (MUSIC MINISTRY)	$2,000
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT	$2,000
LANAI CAT SANCTUARY	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$391k · 48 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$391k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+32%

Still filing today

69%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +17%
YP
YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN PRESCHOOL YORKMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +31%
SH
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +94%

Funded once

LL
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY MWOY- KEVIN PENA
one grant, 2020 · $5k
TU
TURLANE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $3k
Washington and Lee Universitygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +75%

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Inc

The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Yorkminster Presbyterian Preschool Yorkminster Presbyterian Church. 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

48 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. 48 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$192,400Education$96,250Arts & Culture$55,750Animals$44,600Health$25,000Food & Nutrition$15,000International$10,250

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

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home