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John C Smith Family 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.

$104k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations John C Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$104k63%
FY20238$81k88%
FY20225$13kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$50kPhilanthropy$25kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$17kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$14kHuman Services$12kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tulsa Day Center Inc$15,00020%
Vizavance Inc$10,60011%
Tulsa ToughInc$10,00022%
The University of Tulsa$10,00020%
Up With Trees Inc$5,30010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc$3,00010%
Tulsa Boys' Home Inc$1,00010%
The San Miguel School of Tulsa$1,00010%
Stand 1st Foundation$1,00011%
Holy Ghost Palace Inc$4001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John C Smith Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTulsa Day Center Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVizavance Inc: $10,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTulsa ToughInc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe University of Tulsa: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUp With Trees Inc: $5,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Boys' Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Miguel School of Tulsa: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStand 1st Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 9.

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.

The Hardesty Family Foundation IncOK15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About John C Smith Family Foundation

How much does John C Smith Family Foundation give?
John C Smith Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $104,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does John C Smith Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Philanthropy (11%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are John C Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Tulsa Day Center Inc ($15k), Vizavance Inc ($11k), Tulsa ToughInc ($10k).
Does John C Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John C Smith Family Foundation 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 John C Smith Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, Tulsa Community Foundation.
Where is John C Smith Family Foundation based?
John C Smith Family Foundation 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 18 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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