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Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation

Truckee, CA · EIN 87-0636433. Reported 102 grants totalling $1,582,950 to 79 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

79organizations funded
$11,829median reported grant
$1,582,950granted, 2021-2024
38%of grantees funded again the next year
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 79 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $11,829. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $18,576; the smallest was $5,875 and the largest $99,745. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
30 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
59 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Kyra Franchetti Foundation$99,745112021
K&m Residential Solutions LLCFrisco, TX$66,103332024
UC Berkeley FoundationBerkeley, CA$60,000112024
Treasured Friends IncHighland, IN$56,000432024
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationConcord, NH$52,005222023
Town of Truckee$51,238112021
North Dallas Shared Ministries IncDallas, TX$50,000112024
Pawsitivity Service DogsSaint Paul, MN$50,000222024
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$45,250332024
University of RichmondRichmond, VA$38,576222024
Embracing Our Differences IncSarasota, FL$35,000222024
Northshore Memorial Scholarship FoundationWoodinville, WA$32,400332024
Unity RecoveryHobbs, NM$31,110222024
Rutgers the State UniversityPiscataway, NJ$30,000112022
Steve Rummler Hope NetworkSaint Paul, MN$28,000222024
Virginia H Burke LLCMalvern, PA$27,000222024
Charitysmith Nonprofit FoundationTruckee, CA$26,453222024
Gold Star Peak IncEagle River, AK$25,000112023
Rady Childrens Hospital Foundation San DiegoSan Diego, CA$25,000112024
The Station FoundationBozeman, MT$25,000112023
University of Nevada Las Vegas FoundationLas Vegas, NV$25,000222023
University of California San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CA$23,223112023
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ$20,000112023
Beyond Bedtime IncNew York, NY$20,000222024
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA$20,000112024
Danny Dietz Leadership & Training Foundation IncWheat Ridge, CO$20,000112024
Dsf Athletic Booster Club$20,000112021
Fed Up Rally$20,000112021
SalvageusaVirginia Bch, VA$20,000112023
Special Ops SurvivorsEl Dorado Hills, CA$20,000112023
Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission IncDoylestown, PA$19,000112024
Loyola Marymount UniversityLos Angeles, CA$19,000222024
Southern Connecticut State University Foundation IncNew Haven, CT$17,600112022
Bridgeway HouseCoatesville, PA$17,000112023
Washington Adventist University IncTakoma Park, MD$17,000112024
Savage Sisters Recovery IncBryn Mawr, PA$16,975222023
Charity NavigatorUnion City, NJ$16,500222023
University System of New HampshireConcord, NH$16,064112024
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students IncChula Vista, CA$15,155112024
Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay AreaWalnut Creek, CA$15,095112024
Trustees of Mount Holyoke CollegeSouth Hadley, MA$14,582112024
New Hampshire Charitable Fund$14,000112021
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$13,000112021
Wretched Few Inc$13,000112021
University of Michigan$12,500112021
North Texas Coalition Against Human TraffickingDallas, TX$12,490112023
Town of WestfordHaverhill, MA$12,420222024
Duke University$11,000112021
Greenhouse RecoveryChester, PA$10,210112024
Bridgeway House$10,000112021
Children's Medical Center Foundation$10,000112021
Del Webb Middle School PTOHenderson, NV$10,000112024
Greek Orthodox Community of Santa Clara CountySan Jose, CA$10,000112023
New Jersey Institute of Technology FoundationNewark, NJ$10,000112022
Retreat IncEast Hampton, NY$10,000112022
Semper Fi & America's Fund$10,000112021
University of Connecticut Foundation IncorporatedStorrs, CT$10,000112022
Sibley Memorial Hospital FoundationWashington, DC$9,000112023
North Attleboro High School Hockey Boosters Organization IncN Attleboro, MA$8,168112024
Parents for Attleboro School HockeyAthol, MA$8,168112024
Douglas Southall Freeman High School Athletic Booster ClubRichmond, VA$8,000112024
The Children's Hospital Colorado$8,000112021
The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH$8,000112023
PathfindersAspen, CO$7,592112023
Childrens Hospital ColoradoAurora, CO$7,500112024
Childrens Hospital ColoradoAurora, CO$7,500112022
Operation Reel Heroes Long Island IncHuntington, NY$7,500112024
Plymouth State University$7,500112021
Rutgers University FoundationNew Brunswick, NJ$7,500112024
Salvation Army$7,500112021
Moffett Field Historical SocietyMoffett Field, CA$7,000112023
Leelanau Township Community Foundation$6,663112021
Westford Food IncWestford, MA$6,420112023
Right Direction Living$6,300112021
Roudebush Co$6,130112021
Childrens Medical Center FoundationDallas, TX$6,000112022
Operation Military Matters CorpSeminole, FL$6,000112023
Soddy Daisy High School$5,915112021
Milwaukee Winter ClubMilwaukee, WI$5,900112023

18 of 79 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 of 79 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
14 orgs
Human Services
10 orgs
Health Care
5 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 orgs
Mental Health
4 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202119$332,491$10,000
202217$219,403$10,700
202332$452,099$11,304
202434$578,957$15,125

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

18% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$221K
Texas
$135K
Pennsylvania
$90K
Minnesota
$78K
Massachusetts
$70K
New Hampshire
$68K
Virginia
$67K
New Jersey
$64K

Down to the city

Saint Paul, MN
$78K
Dallas, TX
$68K
Concord, NH
$68K
Frisco, TX
$66K
Berkeley, CA
$60K
Highland, IN
$56K

Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one

9 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 17 grants totalling $140,892 to Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation. That is 31% of the 29 funders we can see giving to it. Those 9 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.

4 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.

FoundationStateReportedGrantsYearsLast
Tony and Kyra Rogers FoundationDelaware$80,500442025
Irene W & Cb Pennington PrivateLouisiana$35,000332023
The Pfizer Foundation IncNew York$11,104322022
The Chris and Melody MalachowskyCalifornia$7,000222024
Herbert G Feldman Charitable FoundationPennsylvania$5,000112025
Goldstein Family FoundationFlorida$1,035112023
Shell USA Company FoundationTexas$900112022
Summit Financial FoundationDelaware$250112023
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMaryland$103112023

A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.

Every foundation in the table above files Form 990-PF, which reports every grant it made and asks outright whether it funds only organizations it picks. That answer is what puts it on this list; no other form asks the question. The grants this organization reports making are on Form 990 Schedule I, which only requires listing recipients paid more than $5,000. Two different populations, so the money in and the money out on this page are not two halves of one figure and must not be added or compared.

Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund25 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc25 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc22 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program20 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust18 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America17 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,829 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 13100 Filly Lane, Truckee, CA, 96161.

EIN 87-0636433 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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