· Private foundation
Smoot Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k36 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $231,862 |
| YMCA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC | $28,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF SALINA | $12,000 |
| KU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - SALINA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS NCK | $10,000 |
| SALINA SHARES | $6,000 |
| SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL KANSAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Smoot Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 77%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2026, 50 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +78%
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY10× · 2017–2026 · $410k · revenue +74%
- SASALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $158k · revenue +398%
Funded once
- SRSALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -60%
- BBREAKTHROUGHone grant, 2025 · $5k
- MLMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD CARE ASone grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment
Promote and support economic development
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
To provide care and refuge for animals in need.
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 protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.
To provide aid to victims.
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
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…
Library for benefit of public
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC ↗
- Who funds OCCK INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smoot Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smoot Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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