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Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$435k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$151,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$7.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving24$435k4%
FY202424$400k0%
FY202326$414k0%
FY202227$416k4%
FY202130$440k13%
FY202027$393k19%
FY201929$400k17%
FY201825$419k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$447kHuman Services$228kHousing & Shelter$120kRecreation & Sports$111kFood & Nutrition$92kCrime & Legal$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($501k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $1,332,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $403,680 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAustin College: $270,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Education Foundation of Alachua County Inc: $135,172 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for Transforming Lives: $122,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCasa of Tarrant County Inc: $74,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFort Worth Country Day School Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStage West Theatre Formerly Allied Theatre Group Inc: $67,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Museum of Science and History: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMefiyi: $55,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetFriends of Dangberg Home Ranch: $55,323 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCasa Manana Inc: $42,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fort Worth Public Library Foundation: $40,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMimir Chamber Music Festival: $33,500 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Greater Tarrant County Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFort Worth Opera Association Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMommies in Need: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAmphibian Productions Inc: $22,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Wesleyan University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarson Valley Arts Council: $17,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetWhat About Remembering Me Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTahoe Youth and Family Services: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBallet Concerto Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuckner Children & Family Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Ballet Theater Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth Incorporated: $4,500 over 2y, 1.9% 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 30.

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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.

Sid W Richardson FoundationTX42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Fifth Avenue Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · William E Scott 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.

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Find your warmest path to Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation

How much does Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation give?
Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $435,244 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Arts & Culture (12%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Florida Foundation Inc ($1.3M), University of Nevada Reno Foundation ($404k), Austin College ($270k).
Does Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sid W Richardson Foundation, Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes.
Where is Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation based?
Frances C and William P Smallwood Foundation is based in TX.

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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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