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Frank & Emily Smith Foundation at a glance

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Frank & Emily 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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0168% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.3MEducation$515kHealth$30kFood & Nutrition$15kCrime & Legal$500Youth Development$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $296k → 9%KAHLON FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA RURAL CRIME PREVENTION: $500 → 18%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%MILDRED AND JOSEPH PASTEUR SCHOLARSHIP - EAST CARTERET HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 16%BIG ISLAND CANDIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%BILQUIST ELEMENTARY PTA: $500 → 8%RUN TO WIN: $45k → 9%PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 20%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $284k → 9%ST PETER'S SCHOOL: $70k → 10%COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - SPARTAN FUND: $50k → 16%BIG ISLAND CANDIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RUN TO WIN: $45k → 9%PULLMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 20%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $183k → 9%KING'S SCHOOLS: $122k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%MSU GEORGE WEBSTER SCHOLARSHIP: $12k → 16%BIG ISLAND CANDIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RUN TO WIN: $45k → 9%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $183k → 9%COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $376k → 8%RUN TO WIN: $23k → 9%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $175k → 9%KING'S SCHOOLS: $70k → 11%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $367k → 8%RUN TO WIN: $23k → 9%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $165k → 9%COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION: $296 → 11%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $360k → 8%RUN TO WIN: $23k → 9%HERE FOR KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $65k → 9%4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $254k → 8%COACHELLA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 11%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $230k → 8%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $214k → 8%NORTHWEST READING CLINIC: $203k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 7 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$3.9M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+44%

Still filing today

43%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M
  • HF
    Here For Kids International
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue -40% · 80% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    6× · 2017–2023 · $204k

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PETER'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $70k
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -9%
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.

1
George M Pullman Educational Foundation
Philanthropy
2
The Kallir Family Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
The Kahan Family Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Piston Family Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Park City Education Foundation

Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.

Education
6
Canyons School District Education Foundation

Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…

Education
7
Shade Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Shillman Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Salt Lake Education Foundation

To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.

Philanthropy
10
Kpf Foundation Co Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Pc
Philanthropy
11
Kootenai County Police and Fire Memorial

Support for police and fire fighters and their families as a result of injury, disability or death.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Sfm Foundation

To provide post-secondary education scholarships to children of parents who have been fatally injured or seriously disabled by work related accidents or diseases.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College of the Desert Foundation; the most unlike its peers is 4SHAYJ Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,004,308 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $203,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKING'S SCHOOLS: $192,200 · OtherKING'S SCHOOLS+8 more: $153,500 · Other+8 moreHere For Kids International: $1,349,707 · InternationalHere For Kids InternationalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationCollege of the Desert Foundation: $22,796 · EducationPULLMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN PULLMAN PUBLIC SCH D: $8,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthPULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $500 · Youth Development
Other$2,553,508International$1,349,707Education$185,796Health$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHere For Kids International: $1,349,707 over 7y, 80% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Desert Foundation: $22,796 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPULLMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN PULLMAN PUBLIC SCH D: $8,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetKAHLON FAMILY SERVICES SCHOOL - KFS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget4SHAYJ FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Here For Kids International ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PULLMAN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PULLMAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN PULLMAN PUBLIC SCH D ↗
  • Who funds KAHLON FAMILY SERVICES SCHOOL - KFS ↗
  • Who funds 4SHAYJ FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Frank & Emily Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank & Emily Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 19 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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