· Private foundation
Neal and Bea 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Neal and Bea Smith Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Neal and Bea Smith Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $22k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARING HANDS OUTREACH CENTER | $5,000 |
| ALTOONA METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| COWLES LIBRARY ARCHIVES | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NEAL SMITH WILDLIFE | $2,000 |
| SOUTHEAST POLK DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| THE ADULT LITERACY CENTER | $1,500 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| IOWA WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCARING HANDS OUTREACH CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +15%- INIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGEone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- AUALTOONA UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
To promote social, economic and environmental justice.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds CARING HANDS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds ONE IOWA ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Abortion Access Fund ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Neal and Bea Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neal and Bea Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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