Nebraska · Private foundation
Virginia Smith Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $533k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $285,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Virginia Smith Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 24 | $533k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $506k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $531k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $553k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $481k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $501k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $504k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $498k | 28% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chappell Senior Center | $73,350 | 9 | 61% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America Lewellen Nebraska Inc | $43,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Succeed Inc | $26,850 | 9 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $21,350 | 6 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Gloria Dei Lutheran Church | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| United Methodist Church | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lodgepole Depot Museum Inc | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Nebraska 4-H Foundation | $10,250 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chappell Senior Center | $73,350 | 9 | 61% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America Lewellen Nebraska Inc | $43,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Succeed Inc | $26,850 | 9 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $21,350 | 6 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Gloria Dei Lutheran Church | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| United Methodist Church | $15,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lodgepole Depot Museum Inc | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Nebraska 4-H Foundation | $10,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Chappell Museum Association Inc | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Hippodrome Arts Centre | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sandhills Crisis Intervention | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sedgwick County Memorial Hospital | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adopt-A-Dog Animal Rescue | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
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: Thomas D Buckley Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Virginia Smith Charitable Trust
- How much does Virginia Smith Charitable Trust give?
- Virginia Smith Charitable Trust reported 32 grants totaling $532,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Virginia Smith Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Virginia Smith Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chappell Senior Center ($73k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($45k), Volunteers of America Lewellen Nebraska Inc ($43k).
- Does Virginia Smith Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Virginia Smith Charitable Trust 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 Virginia Smith Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas D Buckley Trust, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Virginia Smith Charitable Trust based?
- Virginia Smith Charitable Trust is based in NE.
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