· Private foundation
Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHEAST WV | $5,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| Helpful Harvest Food Bank | $4,000 |
| BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION | $4,000 |
| HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| TENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| HINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| BLUEFIELD ARTS & REVITALIZATION CORP | $2,500 |
| BLUEFIELD BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSION | $2,500 |
| THE BARTER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WESTMINSTER AT WADE INC | $2,000 |
| THE MERCER COUNTY FAIR | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETON6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +21%
- ATAPPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +18%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BGBurkes Garden Vol Fire Departmentone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BSBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -31%
- TOTown of Athensone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
The mission of burke united christian ministries is to restore resilience in people living in poverty or experiencing homelessness, ensuring their essential needs are met.
Our mission is to extend household resources in our communities through targeting food insecurity and basic need.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
Provide clothing, food, dental and other services to needy people in surrounding communities
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
Community health center
Provide food for the needy
Support other non-profit charitable organizations by providing goods, services and funding
To act as a regional blood bank
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To proclaim the truth of god's word.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES MINISTRIES OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds Helpful Harvest Food Bank ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CRAB ORCHARD MUSEUM & PIONEER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER AT WADE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Ethel N Bowen Foundation · The H P and Anne S Hunnicutt Foundation · Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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