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Smith Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 49
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$14k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Smith Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving20$73k65%
FY202414$74k21%
FY202334$423k53%
FY202230$503k63%
FY202127$95k44%
FY202043$444k35%
FY201949$600k65%
FY201845$560k73%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$192kCrime & Legal$139kHuman Services$110kFood & Nutrition$51kInternational$25kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NM

Top grantees

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

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 168 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smith Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $960,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmberlys Place: $138,990 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSun Street Centers: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Museum of Yuma County Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetKids at Hope: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFuture Citizens Foundation Dba the First Tee of Monterey County: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Yuma County Inc: $12,600 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBallet Yuma: $11,900 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHumane Society of Yuma: $6,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Patients Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYuma County Historical Society: $4,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona's Children Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFostering Hope Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYuma Community Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYuma Catholic High School -Yuma Arizona: $350 over 1y, 0.0% 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 16.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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How do I get to Smith Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Smith Family Foundation Inc 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.

About Smith Family Foundation Inc

How much does Smith Family Foundation Inc give?
Smith Family Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $73,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Smith Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Arts & Culture (6%), Crime & Legal (5%).
Who are Smith Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Arizona Foundation ($960k), Amberlys Place ($139k), Sun Street Centers ($60k).
Does Smith Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Smith Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Smith Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Smith Family Foundation Inc based?
Smith Family Foundation Inc is based in AZ.

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 187 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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