Virginia · Private foundation
Smidinger Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $79k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $18,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Smidinger Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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 | 28 | $78k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $80k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $93k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $73k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $64k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $77,000 | 5 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The American Himalayan Foundation | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
| International Campaign for Tibet | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ossining Food Pantry | $19,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Open Door Foundation Inc | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Food Depot | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smidinger Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Smidinger Trust
- How much does Smidinger Trust give?
- Smidinger Trust reported 29 grants totaling $79,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Smidinger Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (60%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Smidinger Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($77k), International Rescue Committee INC ($56k), The American Himalayan Foundation ($29k).
- Does Smidinger Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smidinger Trust 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 Smidinger Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Smidinger Trust based?
- Smidinger Trust is based in VA.
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