Texas · Private foundation
Smerge Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $125k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $258k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Smerge Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $125k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $10k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $57k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $119k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fenwick High School | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Catholic Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| 287 Rc Fire & Rescue | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Perot Museum of Nature & Science | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fenwick High School | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Catholic Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| 287 Rc Fire & Rescue | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $6,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Perot Museum of Nature & Science | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Monica Catholic School | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Smerge Family Foundation
- How much does Smerge Family Foundation give?
- Smerge Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $124,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
- What does Smerge Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Smerge Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fenwick High School ($80k), The Catholic Foundation ($20k), 287 Rc Fire & Rescue ($10k).
- Does Smerge Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smerge Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smerge Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Smerge Family Foundation based?
- Smerge Family Foundation is based in TX.
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