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Jearl Smart Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$122k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,750
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 39
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Jearl Smart Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2024still arriving25$122k40%
FY202318$162k11%
FY202219$185k21%
FY202129$156k48%
FY202021$129k33%
FY201918$170k17%
FY201833$166k15%
FY201739$230kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$840kReligion$118kPublic Benefit$105kCommunity Improvement$84kArts & Culture$62kAnimals$23kHealth$14kHuman Services$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
CA
CO
AZ
KS
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wewoka Public Schools$102,3134n/a
Oklahoma Christian University$56,75080%
Seminole Nation Historical Society$22,50028%
Interfaith Social Ministries Inc$15,5002n/a
Center for Community Transformation Inc$15,00015%
Oklahoma Baptist University$13,25040%
Cavett Kids Foundation Inc$10,33022%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc$7,00060%
Oklahoma City University$7,00030%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Jearl Smart Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wewoka Public Schools$102,3134n/a
Oklahoma Christian University$56,75080%
Seminole Nation Historical Society$22,50028%
Interfaith Social Ministries Inc$15,5002n/a
Center for Community Transformation Inc$15,00015%
Oklahoma Baptist University$13,25040%
Cavett Kids Foundation Inc$10,33022%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc$7,00060%
Oklahoma City University$7,00030%
Wewoka Sorghum Festival Inc$5,0002n/a
Seminole Public Schools$5,0003n/a
The University of Tulsa$4,50020%
New Age Project Inc$3,50020%
McPherson College$2,50020%
Seminole Humane Society$2,0001n/a
University of Washington$2,0002n/a
Bethany College$1,50010%
Shawnee Forward Inc$1,5001n/a
St Gregory's University$1,00010%
Grand Canyon University$1,00010%
Maple Grove Cemetery Inc$1,0002n/a
Wildcare Foundation$1,0001n/a

Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jearl Smart Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOklahoma Christian University: $56,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSeminole Nation Historical Society: $22,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCenter for Community Transformation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetOklahoma Baptist University: $13,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCavett Kids Foundation Inc: $10,330 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma City University: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Age Project Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMcPherson College: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBethany College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Gregory's University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 14.

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.

Communities Foundation of OklahomaOK19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Patterson Family Foundation · Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Jearl Smart Foundation Inc 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 Jearl Smart Foundation Inc

How much does Jearl Smart Foundation Inc give?
Jearl Smart Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $121,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jearl Smart Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (64%), Religion (9%), Public Benefit (8%).
Who are Jearl Smart Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wewoka Public Schools ($102k), Oklahoma Christian University ($57k), Seminole Nation Historical Society ($23k).
Does Jearl Smart Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jearl Smart Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jearl Smart Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, Patterson Family Foundation, Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc.
Where is Jearl Smart Foundation Inc based?
Jearl Smart Foundation Inc is based in OK.

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 84 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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