Indiana · Private foundation
The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,035
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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 | 66 | $952k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $1.0M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $945k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $993k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $730k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $1.1M | 56% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $1.0M | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellettsville Volunteer Fire | $297,500 | 7 | 68% |
| New Hope Family Shelter Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Lawrence County Cancer Patient Services Inc | $177,709 | 9 | 32% |
| Centerstone of Indiana Inc | $171,325 | 5 | 0% |
| Harmony School Corporation | $170,323 | 9 | 2% |
| Pantry 279 Inc | $162,200 | 4 | 14% |
| Tulip Tree Health Services of Gibso | $129,693 | 7 | 2% |
| Bloomfield School District | $120,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc | $119,036 | 7 | 0% |
| Stone Belt Arc Inc | $118,751 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 156 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 116 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 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: Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · United Way of South Central Indiana · Lilly Endowment Inc · Community Foundation Partnership Inc · Curry Family Foundation Inc · Regional Opportunity Initiatives Inc · Brown County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc reported 69 grants totaling $1,089,752 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (13%), Education (10%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ellettsville Volunteer Fire ($298k), New Hope Family Shelter Inc ($200k), Lawrence County Cancer Patient Services Inc ($178k).
- Does The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc, United Way of South Central Indiana, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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