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John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$650
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$77k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$10k100%
FY20238$13k100%
FY20222$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$20kRecreation & Sports$8k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$749
Individual grant recipient$650
Individual grant recipient$600
Individual grant recipient$221
Individual grant recipient$165
Individual grant recipient$62

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About John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation

How much does John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation give?
John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $9,947 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Recreation & Sports (28%).
Does John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation based?
John M Smith Youth Sports Foundation is based in IL.

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 19 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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