· Private foundation
Isabel Francis Smith and Ralph Lawrence 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MLISADA | $6,000 |
| MISINERAS DE AL EUCHARISTIC | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE AMUR | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $2,000 |
| HAVEN HOUSE | $2,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| GESU CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FELINE NETWORK OF THE CENTRAL COAST | $2,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ARC FIREFIGHTER FUND | $1,200 |
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 (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +19%
- FNFeline Network of the Central Coast9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +174%
- GCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN8× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MOMONASTERY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SOSISTERS OF NOTRE KAME DE NAMURone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 134 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Feline Network of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The John C Hendry Foundation · Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Isabel Francis Smith and Ralph Lawrence Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isabel Francis Smith and Ralph Lawrence Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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