Tennessee · Private foundation
Smartbank Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $177k
- 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 Smartbank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 2 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $36k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $50k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $15k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $20k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rivercity Company | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sevier County Partners in Progress Education Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Saban Center Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Purpose Point Community Resource Center | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mountain Ways Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Top of Georgia Economic Development | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Urban League of Greater Chattanooga | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shepherd's Arms Rescue Mission Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smartbank 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Smartbank Foundation
- How much does Smartbank Foundation give?
- Smartbank Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Smartbank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Community Improvement (24%), Health (10%).
- Who are Smartbank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Rivercity Company ($35k), Sevier County Partners in Progress Education Foundation ($30k), Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic Inc ($25k).
- Does Smartbank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smartbank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smartbank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Smartbank Foundation based?
- Smartbank Foundation is based in TN.
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