Ohio · Private foundation
W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund 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; $4k 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 | 30 | $100k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $90k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $97k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $108k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $104k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $74k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $87k | 39% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middletown Historical Society | $71,801 | 9 | 95% |
| Oxford Museum Association | $42,470 | 5 | 20% |
| Atrium Medical Center Foundation | $40,176 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Chrisholm | $31,864 | 9 | n/a |
| Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park &Museum | $31,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Over-The-Rhine Museum | $27,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting | $19,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education | $16,455 | 2 | 0% |
| Monroe Historical Society | $13,720 | 6 | n/a |
| Preble County Historical Society Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middletown Historical Society | $71,801 | 9 | 95% |
| Oxford Museum Association | $42,470 | 5 | 20% |
| Atrium Medical Center Foundation | $40,176 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Chrisholm | $31,864 | 9 | n/a |
| Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park &Museum | $31,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Over-The-Rhine Museum | $27,000 | 7 | 5% |
| The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting | $19,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education | $16,455 | 2 | 0% |
| Monroe Historical Society | $13,720 | 6 | n/a |
| Preble County Historical Society Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Historic Hamilton Incorporated | $10,300 | 5 | n/a |
| New London Cemetery Association | $9,337 | 1 | 12% |
| Reily Township Historical Society | $8,477 | 4 | n/a |
| Miami University | $7,102 | 3 | n/a |
| Historic Southwest Ohio Inc | $6,850 | 5 | 1% |
| Lewisburg Historical Society Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Delhi Historical Society | $5,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Ross Township Historical Society | $5,663 | 2 | n/a |
| Anderson Twp Historical Society Inc | $5,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Miami Valley YMCA | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Preble County Art Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wyoming Historical Society | $4,551 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio History Connection | $4,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Franklin Area Historical Society | $4,139 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Metro Parks | $3,800 | 1 | n/a |
| King Studios | $3,612 | 2 | n/a |
| The Salty Dog Museum | $3,149 | 2 | 32% |
| Pilgrim Baptist Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House | $2,650 | 1 | 4% |
| Cincinnati Preservation Association | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mariemont Preservation Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Eldorado Activities Committee | $2,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Oxford Visitors and Convention Bureau | $1,960 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Loveland Historical Society Inc | $1,955 | 1 | 7% |
| Midpointe Library System | $1,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Sorg Opera Revitalization Group LLC | $1,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberty Township Historical Society | $1,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt Healthy Historical Society | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Greenhills Historical Society | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami University Foundation | $1,495 | 1 | 0% |
| Butler County Board of Elections | $1,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Norwood Historical Society | $1,046 | 1 | n/a |
| Oxford Senior Citizens Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gorman Heritage Farm Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Western Ohio | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Falcon Productions Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veterans Memorial Museum Foundation | $800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hamilton Parks Conservancy | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Northern Model Railroad Club Inc | $432 | 1 | n/a |
| Gods House of Praise and Worship | $410 | 1 | n/a |
| Trenton Historical Society | $401 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($393k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Ohio Humanities Council · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Middletown Community Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Ohio History Connection · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Robert Gould Foundation Inc · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · First Financial Foundation
How this is measured
Compare W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund with peer funders
About W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund
- How much does W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund give?
- W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund reported 30 grants totaling $99,943 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Education (13%), Health (5%).
- Who are W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Middletown Historical Society ($72k), Oxford Museum Association ($42k), Atrium Medical Center Foundation ($40k).
- Does W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ohio Humanities Council, Louise Taft Semple Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.
- Where is W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund based?
- W E Smith Family Charitable Trust Fund is based in OH.
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