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The Smachlo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$180k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Smachlo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$180k29%
FY20245$160k0%
FY20236$160k0%
FY20227$140k14%
FY20216$190k0%
FY20206$180k0%
FY20198$178k0%
FY20188$164k25%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$630kYouth Development$322kEducation$222kFood & Nutrition$118kAnimals$93kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kHealth$35kArts & Culture$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($380k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Smachlo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAdirondack Aquatic Center Inc: $630,000 over 9y, 87% of budgetBrown School: $222,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc: $118,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Protective Foundation of Schenectady Inc: $93,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetDouble H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWamc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWmht Educational Telecommunications Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 8.

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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About The Smachlo Foundation

How much does The Smachlo Foundation give?
The Smachlo Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $180,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Smachlo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (42%), Youth Development (21%), Education (15%).
Who are The Smachlo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Adirondack Aquatic Center Inc ($630k), Brown School ($222k), Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc ($118k).
Does The Smachlo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Smachlo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Smachlo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Smachlo Foundation based?
The Smachlo Foundation 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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