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The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$76k33%
FY20232$3k0%
FY20227$125k14%
FY20216$88k17%
FY20205$67k20%
FY20194$83k0%
FY201812$338k42%
FY201716$404kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$656kHealth$638kArts & Culture$171kScience & Tech$84kYouth Development$29kEmployment$20kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($989k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Institute of Technology: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMalibu Foundation for Youth and Families: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPortledge School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOaks Christian School: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSagamore Rowing Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCayugas Watchers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetThe Gift of Life Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNational Institute of Social Sciences: $3,300 over 1y, 7.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc

How much does The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc give?
The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $76,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (39%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York Institute of Technology ($110k), Malibu Foundation for Youth and Families ($25k), Portledge School ($15k).
Does The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc based?
The Christopher D Smithers Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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