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Up in Smoke Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Up in Smoke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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 arriving2$1.6M50%
FY20233$633k33%
FY20224$1.1M25%
FY202119$151k26%
FY202014$90kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$3.1MArts & Culture$203kRecreation & Sports$176kEducation$101kHealth$66kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
CA
VA
MD
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Up in Smoke Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of No 9 Inc$50,000135%
San Francisco Opera Association$22,50030%
Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation$22,50032%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc$15,00020%
Baker Senior Center Naples Inc$10,00020%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$10,00020%
University of Wyoming Foundation$10,00020%
Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc$7,00020%
Friends of OR&N 197$6,7441n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,00010%
Catholic Relief Services$2,0002n/a
Artis-Naples Inc$1,00020%
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$50020%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Up in Smoke Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of No 9 Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Rail Heritage Foundation: $22,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaker Senior Center Naples Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Wyoming Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Association Inc: $500 over 2y, 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 11.

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 IncCA6.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Up in Smoke Foundation

How much does Up in Smoke Foundation give?
Up in Smoke Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $1,586,263 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Up in Smoke Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (84%), Arts & Culture (5%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Up in Smoke Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Friends of No 9 Inc ($50k), San Francisco Opera Association ($23k), Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation ($23k).
Does Up in Smoke Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Up in Smoke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Up in Smoke Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Up in Smoke Foundation based?
Up in Smoke Foundation is based in FL.

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 24 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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