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Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley

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.

$240k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$124k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$240k0%
FY20247$230k14%
FY20236$189k33%
FY20225$243k20%
FY20215$250k20%
FY20208$235k13%
FY20195$240k0%
FY20185$321k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHousing & Shelter$692kAnimals$150kHealth$58kReligion$55kCommunity Improvement$36kHuman Services$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dordt University$1,000,00090%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$685,0007n/a
Greater Sioux Community Health Center Inc$58,00070%
The Potters House$56,00090%
Partners Worldwide$36,00040%
Goserv Global Inc$9,00020%
Mel Trotter Ministries$7,00020%
Katelyns Fund Orphan Ministry Inc$5,00011%
The Other Way Ministries$2,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($215k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDordt University: $1,000,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Sioux Community Health Center Inc: $58,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Potters House: $56,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPartners Worldwide: $36,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGoserv Global Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMel Trotter Ministries: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKatelyns Fund Orphan Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Other Way Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley

How much does Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley give?
Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley reported 6 grants totaling $240,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Housing & Shelter (33%), Animals (7%).
Who are Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dordt University ($1.0M), Milwaukee Rescue Mission ($685k), Greater Sioux Community Health Center Inc ($58k).
Does Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley 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 Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley based?
Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley is based in MI.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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