Michigan · Private foundation
Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $84k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $110k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $120k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $162k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $149k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $122k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $110k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $90k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Area Soccer Association | $60,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Studio 23 | $60,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Bay City Players Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Hidden Harvest | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bay County Historical Society | $45,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foster Families Navigation & Resource Center Inc | $28,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Great Lakes Bay Region | $28,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dow Bay Area Family Young Men's Christian Association | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($428k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Bay Area Community Foundation · The Kantzler Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc · Frances Goll Mills Fund · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Allison K Short Foundation · United Way of Bay County
How this is measured
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About Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation
- How much does Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation give?
- Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $93,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Philanthropy (11%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bay Area Soccer Association ($60k), Studio 23 ($60k), Bay City Players Inc ($50k).
- Does Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bay Area Community Foundation, The Kantzler Foundation, Gougeon Employees Foundation.
- Where is Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation based?
- Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation is based in MI.
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