Illinois · Private foundation
Smoke Rise Foundation Inc
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.
- $504k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $416k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Smoke Rise Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 32 | $416k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $511k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $524k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $322k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $438k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $141k | n/a |
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainforest Trust | $470,930 | 6 | 0% |
| Population Media Center Inc | $248,833 | 5 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $224,755 | 4 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $179,866 | 3 | 0% |
| Alight | $160,416 | 3 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $104,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Putney School Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| White Oak Conservation Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Green Mountain Horse Association Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($397k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smoke Rise Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About Smoke Rise Foundation Inc
- How much does Smoke Rise Foundation Inc give?
- Smoke Rise Foundation Inc reported 32 itemized grants totaling $415,500, out of $504,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Smoke Rise Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (21%), International (8%), Education (8%).
- Who are Smoke Rise Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Rainforest Trust ($471k), Population Media Center Inc ($249k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($225k).
- Does Smoke Rise Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smoke Rise Foundation Inc 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 Smoke Rise Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Mascoma Bank Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation.
- Where is Smoke Rise Foundation Inc based?
- Smoke Rise Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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