Tennessee · Private foundation
Henry Laird Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $601k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 72
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Henry Laird Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 48 | $599k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $622k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $690k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $690k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $850k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $753k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $550k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harpeth Hall School | $737,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Siloam Health | $420,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc | $415,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Equal Chance for Education | $125,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Christ Church Cathedral | $122,500 | 7 | n/a |
| St Luke's Community House Inc | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cumberland River Compact Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Nashville Tree Foundation | $61,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art | $60,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henry Laird Smith Foundation 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: The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation
How this is measured
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About Henry Laird Smith Foundation
- How much does Henry Laird Smith Foundation give?
- Henry Laird Smith Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $601,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Henry Laird Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (25%), Education (21%), Health (14%).
- Who are Henry Laird Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Harpeth Hall School ($737k), Siloam Health ($420k), The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc ($415k).
- Does Henry Laird Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry Laird 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 Henry Laird Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation.
- Where is Henry Laird Smith Foundation based?
- Henry Laird Smith Foundation is based in TN.
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