Ohio · Private foundation
Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $731k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% 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 | 31 | $67k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $70k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $68k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $38k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $38k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $39k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $39k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $35k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $47,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Yorkminster Presbyterian Preschool Yorkminster Presbyterian Church | $26,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio | $15,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Canine Lifeline Inc | $15,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Park View 19 Scholarship Fund | $15,000 | 3 | 100% |
| Leesburg Presbyterian Church | $15,000 | 5 | n/a |
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $14,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Lanai Cat Sanctuary | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Wild Animal Sanctuary | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
About Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation
- How much does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation give?
- Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (14%), Animals (14%).
- Who are Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Navy Seal Foundation Inc ($48k), Yorkminster Presbyterian Preschool Yorkminster Presbyterian Church ($26k), Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio ($15k).
- Does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Circle Bar Foundation, Mays Family Foundation.
- Where is Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation based?
- Charles Henry Smith Sr Foundation is based in OH.
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