Kansas · Private foundation
Smoot Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $525k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2026
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $231,862
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 51
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 4% of the organizations Smoot Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 44 | $523k | 27% |
| FY2025 | 45 | $517k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $484k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $530k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $421k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $401k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $314k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $570k | 4% |
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas | $1,717,052 | 7 | 12% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $410,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Salina Area United Way Inc | $158,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Salina Art Center Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Salina Education Foundation | $57,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Salina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc | $57,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Ashby House Ltd | $41,000 | 10 | 2% |
| Salina Rescue Mission Inc | $39,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Occk Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smoot Charitable Foundation 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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · Salina Area United Way Inc · Zimmerman Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Smoot Charitable Foundation
- How much does Smoot Charitable Foundation give?
- Smoot Charitable Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $524,862 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Smoot Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Education (13%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Smoot Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ($1.7M), Kansas Wesleyan University ($410k), Salina Area United Way Inc ($158k).
- Does Smoot Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smoot Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smoot Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation, Earl Bane Foundation.
- Where is Smoot Charitable Foundation based?
- Smoot Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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