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Smeed Memorial Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 14
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Smeed Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20213$1.0M0%
FY202011$325k9%
FY201914$331kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$142kCommunity Improvement$120kSocial Science$120kArts & Culture$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwest Nazarene University Inc$1,020,00031%
Idaho Freedom Foundation Inc$120,20037%
Greenleaf Friends Academy$90,0002n/a
Torch of Freedom Foundation$80,00025%
White Pine Foundation Inc$80,000294%
Foundation for Economic Education Inc$40,00020%
The Mentoring Network Inc$10,00015%
Flags for Vets Inc$10,00024%
Idaho Prayer Fellowship Inc$6,0002n/a
Hope House Inc$20010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Smeed Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Nazarene University Inc: $1,020,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetIdaho Freedom Foundation Inc: $120,200 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTorch of Freedom Foundation: $80,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetWhite Pine Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mentoring Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFlags for Vets Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHope House Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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.

John & Orah Brandt FoundationID13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John & Orah Brandt Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to Smeed Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Smeed Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Smeed Memorial Foundation

How much does Smeed Memorial Foundation give?
Smeed Memorial Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,003,200 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Smeed Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (73%), Human Services (9%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are Smeed Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Northwest Nazarene University Inc ($1.0M), Idaho Freedom Foundation Inc ($120k), Greenleaf Friends Academy ($90k).
Does Smeed Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Smeed Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Smeed Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John & Orah Brandt Foundation, Idaho Community Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Smeed Memorial Foundation based?
Smeed Memorial Foundation is based in ID.

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 15 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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