Wisconsin · Private foundation
Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $279k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $279k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $264k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $272k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $276k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $290k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $262k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $272k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $267k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viterbo University | $234,000 | 9 | 0% |
| La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $178,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Great Rivers United Way Inc | $123,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater la Cross | $117,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison | $111,000 | 9 | 0% |
| La Crosse Community Theatre | $83,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc | $66,667 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Museum of la Crosse Inc | $57,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Aquinas Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($821k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Trust Point Foundation Inc Xxxxxx2342 · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
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About Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172
- How much does Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 give?
- Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 reported 32 grants totaling $278,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Viterbo University ($234k), La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($178k), Great Rivers United Way Inc ($123k).
- Does Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include La Crosse Community Foundation, Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc, Lyche Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 based?
- Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 is based in WI.
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