Arkansas · Private foundation
Stella Smith Charitable Trust
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.
- $620k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $32,141
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $161,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Stella Smith Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 16 | $620k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $565k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $595k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $486k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $538k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $451k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $666k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $569k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Arkansas Inc | $181,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Arkansas Children's Foundation | $149,193 | 5 | 1% |
| Arkansas Children's Hospital | $145,449 | 4 | 0% |
| Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sculpture at the River Market Inc | $94,200 | 3 | 15% |
| Arkansas Repertory Theatre | $81,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Garden Club of America | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Episcopal Collegiate School | $73,900 | 8 | 0% |
| CARTI Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stella Smith Charitable Trust 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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Coulson Foundation · The Hussman Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Trinity Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation · Brown Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Walton Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Stella Smith Charitable Trust
- How much does Stella Smith Charitable Trust give?
- Stella Smith Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $620,055 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stella Smith Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Health (7%), Education (5%).
- Who are Stella Smith Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ballet Arkansas Inc ($181k), Arkansas Children's Foundation ($149k), Arkansas Children's Hospital ($145k).
- Does Stella Smith Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stella Smith Charitable Trust 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 Stella Smith Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Arvest Foundation, Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Stella Smith Charitable Trust based?
- Stella Smith Charitable Trust is based in AR.
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