· Private foundation
Smeenk Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH | $12,898 |
| ROCHESTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,525 |
| COVENANT LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,100 |
| ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY | $7,798 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $7,200 |
| THE CHARLES FINNEY SCHOOL | $4,300 |
| WORLD VISION | $3,366 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $2,550 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $2,500 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $2,049 |
| HOCKEY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| CAMP HICKORY HILL | $1,500 |
| ROCHESTER FAMILY MISSION | $1,169 |
| NEW YORKERS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRochester Christian School Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $381k · revenue +50%
- MBMT BETHEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $41k · revenue +36%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- TPTHE PAUL E SINGER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue ×30
- FCFAIRPORT COMMUNIONATY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $2k
- BCBROWNCROFT COMMUNITY CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
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To share the gospel of jesus christ to the world, to teach & equip the disciples of christ, to teach & train the next generation, to bring the people of god closer together using radio, social media, print literature & other audio & video…
Religious studies
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 82 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 Rochester Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds MT BETHEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE PAUL E SINGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caring Choices Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER FAMILY MISSION ↗
- Who funds Feminists Choosing Life of NY Inc ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smeenk Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smeenk Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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