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.

Smidinger Trust

Smidinger Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$19k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$236kFood & Nutrition$41kHuman Services$37kHousing & Shelter$21kHealth$20kAnimals$14kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$8kOther$0

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k27 grants · $44k
$10k–50k2 grants · $36k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
International Campaign for Tibet	$18,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$17,000
American Himalayan Foundation	$6,000
Semper Fi and Americas Fund	$4,000
Ossining Food Pantry	$3,500
Open Door Foundation	$3,500
US Fund for UNICEF	$3,000
SEVA Foundation	$3,000
THE FOOD DEPOT	$3,000
Habitat for Humanity	$3,000
Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society	$2,500
The Hunger Project	$2,000
Project Hope	$1,500
Nature Conservancy	$1,000
Westchester Childrens Association	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Smidinger Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Smidinger Trustlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$381k · 36 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -29% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$381k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

-29%

Still filing today

78%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +39%
IR
International Rescue Committee INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +63%
IC
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET
5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +14%

Funded once

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -40%
PH
Project Hope people to people healt
one grant, 2020 · $1k
PH
PROJECT H O P E INC
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Haven House of Montrose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

27/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$237,100Other$59,040Human Services$44,200Health$21,000Philanthropy$19,500Animals$10,000Civil Rights$3,500

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Smidinger Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smidinger Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Smidinger Trust?

Find your warmest path to Smidinger Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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