Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $444k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $444k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $416k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $465k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $476k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $398k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $430k | 51% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $463k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $401k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProKids | $130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Stepping Stones Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bethany House Services Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Maria Community Services Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Learning Grove Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lighthouse Youth Services | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsem Horsemanship | $65,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 127 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($902k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Andrew Jergens Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati
How this is measured
About Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust
- How much does Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust give?
- Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust reported 38 grants totaling $444,339 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (20%), Education (12%).
- Who are Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: ProKids ($130k), Stepping Stones Inc ($95k), Bethany House Services Inc ($80k).
- Does Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Andrew Jergens Foundation, Pfau Charitable Foundation, John a Schroth Family Char Tr.
- Where is Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust based?
- Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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