South Carolina · Private foundation
Dick Smith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $759k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Dick Smith Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 14 | $177k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $133k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $128k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $175k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $203k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $197k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $119k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $140k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Shelter Inc | $196,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Baptist Convention of New England | $153,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Jubilee Academy Inc | $104,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Homeless No More Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Leprosy Missions Inc | $93,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Christian Ministries International | $35,760 | 9 | 10% |
| Global Frontier Missions Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Mission Development Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Tracy's Camp Inc | $23,750 | 8 | 4% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($423k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dick Smith Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Wolfe Family Foundation · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · McKesson Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dick Smith Foundation Inc
- How much does Dick Smith Foundation Inc give?
- Dick Smith Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $176,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dick Smith Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (23%), Housing & Shelter (21%).
- Who are Dick Smith Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Shelter Inc ($196k), Baptist Convention of New England ($154k), Jubilee Academy Inc ($104k).
- Does Dick Smith Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dick Smith Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dick Smith Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Spartanburg County Foundation, South Carolina Christian Foundation.
- Where is Dick Smith Foundation Inc based?
- Dick Smith Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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