How much does George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr give?

George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr reported 23 grants totaling $420,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($277k), The Legacy Foundation ($277k), Fresh Air Fund ($161k).

Does George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr 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 George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc, United Way of Tompkins County Inc, Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc.

Where is George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr based?

George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr is based in NY.

George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr

George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr at a glance

· Private foundation

George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$420k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$141k

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, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$1.0MHuman Services$368kArts & Culture$277kRecreation & Sports$161kInternational$132kHealth$99kAnimals$58kEmployment$46kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $97k
$10k–50k5 grants · $82k
$50k–250k3 grants · $242k

$8,400

Median grant

States reached

$6.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Nature Conservancy General Fund	$140,700
The Salvation Army	$50,400
Legacy Foundation	$50,400
Fresh Air Fund	$29,400
Adirondack Land Trust	$14,700
Adirondack Council	$12,600
Save The Children Federation Inc	$12,600
FRANZISKA RACKER CENTER	$12,600
CARE	$8,400
Challenge Industries INC	$8,400
Habitat for Humanity INC	$8,400
Audubon	$8,400
Wilderness Society	$8,400
Project Hope	$8,400
New York Times Neediest Cases Fund	$8,400

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 (FY20–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 26 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$8k

Still filing today

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

FRESH AIR FUND
6× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +64%
AL
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +82%
Save The Children Federation Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +14%

Funded once

DC
Day Care & Child Development Council
one grant, 2022 · $8k

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.

The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment

Central New York Community Foundation Inc

Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.

Philanthropy

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment

Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Adirondack Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Legacy 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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)

16/17

Grantees still filing

13/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,378,670Arts & Culture$276,720Environment$242,130Recreation & Sports$161,420International$131,760Human Services$69,180Philanthropy$46,120

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.

Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Park Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George V Smith and Jean a Smith Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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