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.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- 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.
- 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 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
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.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyra Franchetti Foundation | $99,745 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| K&m Residential Solutions LLC | Frisco, TX | $66,103 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Treasured Friends Inc | Highland, IN | $56,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Hampshire Charitable Foundation | Concord, NH | $52,005 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Town of Truckee | $51,238 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| North Dallas Shared Ministries Inc | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pawsitivity Service Dogs | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $45,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Richmond | Richmond, VA | $38,576 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Embracing Our Differences Inc | Sarasota, FL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northshore Memorial Scholarship Foundation | Woodinville, WA | $32,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Unity Recovery | Hobbs, NM | $31,110 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Steve Rummler Hope Network | Saint Paul, MN | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Virginia H Burke LLC | Malvern, PA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation | Truckee, CA | $26,453 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gold Star Peak Inc | Eagle River, AK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rady Childrens Hospital Foundation San Diego | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Station Foundation | Bozeman, MT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $23,223 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beyond Bedtime Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Danny Dietz Leadership & Training Foundation Inc | Wheat Ridge, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dsf Athletic Booster Club | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Fed Up Rally | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Salvageusa | Virginia Bch, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Ops Survivors | El Dorado Hills, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bucks County Drug and Alcohol Commission Inc | Doylestown, PA | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, CA | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern Connecticut State University Foundation Inc | New Haven, CT | $17,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bridgeway House | Coatesville, PA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington Adventist University Inc | Takoma Park, MD | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Savage Sisters Recovery Inc | Bryn Mawr, PA | $16,975 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University System of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $16,064 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | Chula Vista, CA | $15,155 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area | Walnut Creek, CA | $15,095 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, MA | $14,582 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hampshire Charitable Fund | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Wretched Few Inc | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| University of Michigan | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| North Texas Coalition Against Human Trafficking | Dallas, TX | $12,490 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of Westford | Haverhill, MA | $12,420 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Duke University | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Greenhouse Recovery | Chester, PA | $10,210 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridgeway House | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Children's Medical Center Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Del Webb Middle School PTO | Henderson, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greek Orthodox Community of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation | Newark, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Retreat Inc | East Hampton, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| University of Connecticut Foundation Incorporated | Storrs, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | Washington, DC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Attleboro High School Hockey Boosters Organization Inc | N Attleboro, MA | $8,168 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parents for Attleboro School Hockey | Athol, MA | $8,168 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Douglas Southall Freeman High School Athletic Booster Club | Richmond, VA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Children's Hospital Colorado | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pathfinders | Aspen, CO | $7,592 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Colorado | Aurora, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Colorado | Aurora, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Reel Heroes Long Island Inc | Huntington, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Plymouth State University | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Moffett Field Historical Society | Moffett Field, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leelanau Township Community Foundation | $6,663 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Westford Food Inc | Westford, MA | $6,420 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Right Direction Living | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Roudebush Co | $6,130 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Childrens Medical Center Foundation | Dallas, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Military Matters Corp | Seminole, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soddy Daisy High School | $5,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Milwaukee Winter Club | Milwaukee, WI | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 49 of 79 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $332,491 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 17 | $219,403 | $10,700 |
| 2023 | 32 | $452,099 | $11,304 |
| 2024 | 34 | $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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
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.
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