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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $306k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST | $150,000 |
| THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE | $106,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| NASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE WELCOME GARDEN | $18,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $17,500 |
| ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| SILOAM FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL | $10,000 |
| SAINT AUGUSTINE CHAPEL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $737k · revenue +141%
- SHSILOAM HEALTH7× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +47%
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $415k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NANASHVILLE ACADEMY THEATRE AND NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +26%
- KDKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +75%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
How this is measured
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE PLANTATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry Laird Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Laird Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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