FundersPennsylvania

The Smith Foundation Co Ms Julianne Mcnamara

Wrightsville, PA · EIN 23-2633100. Reported 62 grants totalling $172,168 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$172,168granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
83%of grantees funded again the next year
$393,197assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Smith Foundation Co Ms Julianne Mcnamara did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $4,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $8,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Lancaster County ConservancyLancaster, PA$21,000442024
Susquehanna Gateway HeritageWrightsville, PA$19,000332023
Wrightsville Fire CompanyWrightsville, PA$18,000332023
Hourglass FoundationLancaster, PA$12,000332023
Wrightsville 4TH of July CommunityWrightsville, PA$12,000332023
Wrightsville Historic AssociationWrightsville, PA$9,200332023
Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA$8,000442024
First PresbyterianYork, PA$6,500332023
Rotary Club of Eastern York CountyYork, PA$6,000332023
Trinity Lutheran ChurchWrightsville, PA$6,000442024
United Way of Lancaster CountyLancaster, PA$6,000332023
Wrightsville Fire DeptLancaster, PA$6,000112024
Susq National HeritageWrightsville, PA$5,000112024
Wrightsville Borough Susquehanna RiverlandsWrightsville, PA$5,000112022
Fulton Opera HouseLancaster, PA$4,500332023
Masonic Lodge-Riverside 503Wrightsville, PA$4,000112024
Historic WrightsvilleWrightsville, PA$3,718112024
Lancaster Symphony OrchestraLancaster, PA$3,000332023
American Legion Post 469Wrightsville, PA$2,750222023
First Presbyterian ChurchYork, PA$2,000112024
RivertownesColumbia, PA$2,000332023
Rotary Club Wrightsville ChapterYork, PA$2,000112024
United WayLancaster, PA$2,000112024
Fulton TheaterLancaster, PA$1,500112024
Rivertownes Pa USAColumbia, PA$1,500112024
Demuth FoundationLancaster, PA$1,000112022
Lancaster SymphonyLancaster, PA$1,000112024
LancasterhistoryorgLancaster, PA$1,000222022
Susquehanna Valley Chamber of CommeWrightsville, PA$500112021

16 of 29 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 83%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 2 grants to individuals totalling $1,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
10 grants
Environment
7 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$40,700$2,000
202218$50,350$2,000
202315$43,900$2,000
202413$37,218$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 95% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$164K
Massachusetts
$8K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Lancaster County Community Foundation7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsWillis and Elsie Shenk Foundation4 shared recipientsThe Steinman Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Smith Foundation Co Ms Julianne Mcnamara's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 130 North Front Street, Wrightsville, PA, 17368. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-2633100 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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