How much does Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation give?

Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $26,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (22%), Public Safety & Disaster (19%).

Who are Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: HopeWest ($15k), Grand Valley Catholic Outreach Inc ($10k), Catholic Relief Services ($8k).

Does Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Shirley C 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 Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, El Pomar Foundation, Bacon Family Foundation.

Where is Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation based?

Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation is based in CO.

Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation

Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$52kHealth$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kFood & Nutrition$19kInternational$6kRecreation & Sports$4kHousing & Shelter$4kReligion$1k

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$534k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HOPEWEST	$2,800
RETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS	$2,500
HANDMAIDS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD	$1,500
THE PRIESTLY FRAT OF ST PETER	$1,500
GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH	$1,500
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES	$1,500
SHARING MINISTRIES FOOD BANK	$1,500
WESTERN SLOPE FOOD BANK	$1,500
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$1,350
CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION	$1,000
PREGNANCY RES CENTER OF DELTA CNTY	$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP	$800
PROVIDING HOPE FOR NIGERIA	$800
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$750
FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY	$600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$144k · 34 repeat orgs$800 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$144k

$800

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

Still filing today

53%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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HopeWest
6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +76%
GV
GRAND VALLEY CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +16%
SM
Sharing Ministries Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +172%

Funded once

PH
PROVIDING HOPE TO NIGERIA
one grant, 2025 · $800

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.

04Its field

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.

World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition

Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health

Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services

Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International

Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International

Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

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Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International

Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 35 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$89,350Human Services$18,750Public Safety & Disaster$15,400Health$10,600International$5,850Food & Nutrition$2,800Philanthropy$2,250

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.

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.

Western Colorado Community Foundation IncCO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Bacon Family Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shirley C Smith Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home