Tennessee · Private foundation
Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $499k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $144,924
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 11 | $499k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $432k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $450k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $393k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $468k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $416k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kids of the Community | $493,576 | 6 | 49% |
| Stars Nashville | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Helping Hands Ministry | $98,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Warren Arts Foundation Inc | $94,270 | 5 | 33% |
| Park Theatre Group | $91,857 | 3 | 70% |
| My Fathers Closet | $80,000 | 4 | 35% |
| Children's Advocacy Center 31st Judicial District Inc | $46,723 | 3 | 11% |
| McMinnville Special Games | $45,724 | 3 | 14% |
| Pregnancy Care Center | $45,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Friends of the Greenway Inc | $43,375 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kids of the Community | $493,576 | 6 | 49% |
| Stars Nashville | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Helping Hands Ministry | $98,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Warren Arts Foundation Inc | $94,270 | 5 | 33% |
| Park Theatre Group | $91,857 | 3 | 70% |
| My Fathers Closet | $80,000 | 4 | 35% |
| Children's Advocacy Center 31st Judicial District Inc | $46,723 | 3 | 11% |
| McMinnville Special Games | $45,724 | 3 | 14% |
| Pregnancy Care Center | $45,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Friends of the Greenway Inc | $43,375 | 1 | n/a |
| McMinnville Rotary Community Fund | $23,501 | 1 | n/a |
| Solomon Program | $21,240 | 1 | 23% |
| Young Men United | $15,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Warren County Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa Works Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Main Street McMinnville Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Newell Brands Community Fund Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust with peer funders
About Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust
- How much does Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust give?
- Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust reported 11 grants totaling $498,783 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (33%), Public Safety & Disaster (26%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kids of the Community ($494k), Stars Nashville ($200k), Helping Hands Ministry ($98k).
- Does Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Newell Brands Community Fund Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust based?
- Steve and Kate Smith Community Trust is based in TN.
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