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Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving6$77k33%
FY20246$72k50%
FY20237$77k29%
FY20227$87kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$176kEducation$50kHealth$46kEmployment$32kFood & Nutrition$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Comprehensive Systems Inc$85,12840%
Meals on Wheels of Mason City Inc$9,20044%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

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About Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation

How much does Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation give?
Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $76,535 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (56%), Education (16%), Health (15%).
Who are Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Comprehensive Systems Inc ($85k), Meals on Wheels of Mason City Inc ($9k).
Does Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation based?
Laverna M Smedley Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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