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Smoot Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $329k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $228,714 |
| KANSAS WESLYAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| YMCA - ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK | $28,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| KU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - SALINA | $10,000 |
| SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALINA SHARES | $6,000 |
| CENTRAL KANSAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OCCUPATIONAL CENTER OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Smoot Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +78%
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +74%
- SASALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $158k · revenue +398%
Funded once
- SRSALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -60%
- CACORONADO ARE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MLMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD CARE ASone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promote and support economic development
To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment
To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.
Saline area social service provides food, emergency aid, and support to those in need in the saline community. sass aims to build a stronger community of neighbors helping neighbors.
Christian education
Provide temporary shelter to homeless persons in saline county, kansas who do not have the resources or support system to obtain food and shelter on their own.
To provide care and refuge for animals in need.
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
Library for benefit of public
To provide aid to victims.
To support and further the development, public awareness, and interest in the fine and performing arts and humanities in salina, kansas. to be a supporting organization to the city of salina, kansas, the arts and humanities commission and…
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St John's Missionary Baptist Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds OCCK INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Smoot Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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