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Mary Ilo Smith Charitable 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.

$622k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3
Largest grant, FY2024
$318,174
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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 arriving9$622k0%
FY20237$2.1M14%
FY202212$131k8%
FY202112$130k17%
FY202011$120k36%
FY201912$117kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$1.7MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$350kEducation$61kPhilanthropy$49kHousing & Shelter$36kCivil Rights$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$347,3896n/a
Baylor College of Medicine$344,07450%
Roy Maas' Youth Alternatives Inc$338,02352%
Assistance League of San Antonio$332,212522%
Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc$332,19255%
Christus Continuing Care$329,567517%
Hospice of the Valley$320,41860%
Project H O P E Inc$311,6553n/a
Family Violence Prevention Services Inc$294,48523%
Guide Dogs of Texas Inc$49,30042%
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All grantees of Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$347,3896n/a
Baylor College of Medicine$344,07450%
Roy Maas' Youth Alternatives Inc$338,02352%
Assistance League of San Antonio$332,212522%
Sunshine Acres Children's Home Inc$332,19255%
Christus Continuing Care$329,567517%
Hospice of the Valley$320,41860%
Project H O P E Inc$311,6553n/a
Family Violence Prevention Services Inc$294,48523%
Guide Dogs of Texas Inc$49,30042%
Jumet Charitable Foundation$49,30046%
Battered Womens Shelter Endowment Fund$25,600221%
People to People$11,7001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $344,074 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRoy Maas' Youth Alternatives Inc: $338,023 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetAssistance League of San Antonio: $332,212 over 5y, 22% of budgetSunshine Acres Children's Home Inc: $332,192 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetChristus Continuing Care: $329,567 over 5y, 17% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $320,418 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Violence Prevention Services Inc: $294,485 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $49,300 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJumet Charitable Foundation: $49,300 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBattered Womens Shelter Endowment Fund: $25,600 over 2y, 21% 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 10.

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.

Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation

How much does Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation give?
Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $621,863 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (53%), Health (32%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Salvation Army ($347k), Baylor College of Medicine ($344k), Roy Maas' Youth Alternatives Inc ($338k).
Does Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Ilo Smith Charitable 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 Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation, San Antonio Area Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation based?
Mary Ilo Smith Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 20 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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