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Dennis & Smith Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$56M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$735kCommunity Improvement$250kPhilanthropy$250kArts & Culture$250kEnvironment$250kAnimals$250kHealth$182kYouth Development$125kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Dennis & Smith Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Miami: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Entrelliance Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetGulliver Preparatory School Inc: $235,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMiami Music Project Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNetwork for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetArea Stage Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPelican Harbor Seabird Station Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMiami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetZoo Miami Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLoggerhead Marinelife Center Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAcds Inc: $57,343 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dennis & Smith Foundation

How much does Dennis & Smith Foundation give?
Dennis & Smith Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $2,075,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Dennis & Smith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Community Improvement (9%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Dennis & Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: University of Miami ($500k), The Entrelliance Foundation ($250k), Gulliver Preparatory School Inc ($235k).
Does Dennis & Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dennis & Smith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Miami Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Dennis & Smith Foundation based?
Dennis & Smith Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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