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The Smalling Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$12k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Smalling Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthEnvironmentEducationReligionAnimalsOther
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 arriving9$4k44%
FY20248$4k25%
FY20237$3k29%
FY20229$3k33%
FY20218$3k38%
FY202011$5k9%
FY201912$3k33%
FY201815$3k27%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$8kHealth$7kHuman Services$5kInternational$4kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$1kRecreation & Sports$1kPublic Benefit$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Smalling Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $4,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $1,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetConejo Valley Multisport Masters: $1,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Thousand Oaks Library: $500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKona Historical Society: $450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Tropical Botanical Garden: $435 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc: $341 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $314 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Zoological Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 16.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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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About The Smalling Family Foundation

How much does The Smalling Family Foundation give?
The Smalling Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $3,753 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Smalling Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (23%), Human Services (15%).
Who are The Smalling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($4k), Samaritan's Purse ($2k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($2k).
Does The Smalling Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Smalling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Smalling Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Smalling Family Foundation based?
The Smalling Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 38 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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