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Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation

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.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$750
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$413k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$23k28%
FY202316$27k31%
FY202226$63k35%
FY202128$60k21%
FY202027$46k33%
FY201922$37k45%
FY201818$68k28%
FY201721$39kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$242kYouth Development$49kHealth$32kArts & Culture$13kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kReligion$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education$120,2808n/a
University of Nevada Reno Foundation$65,55880%
Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows$43,72980%
Renown Health Foundation$30,00030%
Artown$5,80080%
Reno Jazz Orchestra$5,50051%
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc$4,50060%
Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe$4,10040%
Minot State University$3,0003n/a
Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission Incorporated$2,4016n/a
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All grantees of Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education$120,2808n/a
University of Nevada Reno Foundation$65,55880%
Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows$43,72980%
Renown Health Foundation$30,00030%
Artown$5,80080%
Reno Jazz Orchestra$5,50051%
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc$4,50060%
Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe$4,10040%
Minot State University$3,0003n/a
Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission Incorporated$2,4016n/a
Joshua L Anderson Memorial Foundation$2,05063%
Reno National Little League$2,0001n/a
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation$2,00030%
Honor Flight Nevada Inc$1,50010%
The University of Charleston Inc$1,50020%
The Children's Cabinet Inc$1,30010%
Animal Ark Incorporated$1,10040%
Jimmy Olivas Athletic Foundation$1,00016%
Reno Bike Project Inc$55020%
Channel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc$37530%
Florida Boxing Hall of Fame Inc$35011%
Reno Continental Little League$30010%
Veterans Guest House Inc$30030%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$25010%
The Holland Project$25010%
Washoe County School District$2001n/a
McQueen Band Parent Association Inc$2001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $65,558 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows: $43,729 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetArtown: $5,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetReno Jazz Orchestra: $5,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe: $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJoshua L Anderson Memorial Foundation: $2,050 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNorthern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHonor Flight Nevada Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of Charleston Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Cabinet Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Ark Incorporated: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJimmy Olivas Athletic Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetReno Bike Project Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChannel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc: $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Boxing Hall of Fame Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetReno Continental Little League: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Holland Project: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The E L Cord FoundationNV34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The E L Cord Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Renown Health · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Greater Nevada Credit Union

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.

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About Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation

How much does Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation give?
Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $22,680 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Youth Development (14%), Health (9%).
Who are Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education ($120k), University of Nevada Reno Foundation ($66k), Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows ($44k).
Does Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation 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 Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The E L Cord Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Nevada, The Nell J Redfield Foundation.
Where is Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation based?
Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation is based in NV.

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 71 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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