· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| THE POTTER'S HOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PROMISE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +66% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +66%
- GSGREATER SIOUX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +115%
- TPThe Potters House9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- TMTHE MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION (CROSS TRAINERS ACADEMY)one grant, 2022 · $75k
- CTCROSS TRAINERS ACADEMY (THE MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION)one grant, 2021 · $75k
- KFKATELYNS FUND ORPHAN MINISTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Presbyterian children's homes and services provides a variety of christ-centered care and support to children and families in need.
Provide resources for global orphan care
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
Gth is a christian missions organization that operates in haiti. the organization focuses on the many needs of the haitian people. it operates one clinic and supports schools.
The mission of dakota christian school is to assist parents by providing education based on a biblical worldview, thereby enabling children to grow in christian wisdom, to nurture godly character, and to serve christ as lord.
The mission of world servants is to display gods love to the world through church partnerships and gospel-centered service. the vision of world servants is connect churches in the usa to churches around the world with a shared goal of…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smickley Family Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Laurie J Smickley. Bigger dots raise more.
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