Ohio · Private foundation
John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John G & Phyllis W Smale Family 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; $0 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 | 12 | $114k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $87k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $91k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $19k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $72k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Parks Foundation | $271,876 | 6 | 3% |
| Mill Creek Alliance | $46,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Love Grows Program Inc | $25,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Cise | $25,330 | 3 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Center City Development Corp | $22,128 | 4 | 0% |
| Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Springer School and Center | $19,220 | 2 | 0% |
| Every Child Succeeds | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Seven Hills School | $7,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohio River Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Parks Foundation | $271,876 | 6 | 3% |
| Mill Creek Alliance | $46,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Love Grows Program Inc | $25,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Cise | $25,330 | 3 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Center City Development Corp | $22,128 | 4 | 0% |
| Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Springer School and Center | $19,220 | 2 | 0% |
| Every Child Succeeds | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Seven Hills School | $7,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohio River Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati Dba Queen City Book Bank | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kenyon College | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John G & Phyllis W Smale Family 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.
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How this is measured
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About John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation
- How much does John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation give?
- John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $115,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (55%), Education (17%), Environment (10%).
- Who are John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cincinnati Parks Foundation ($272k), Mill Creek Alliance ($47k), The Love Grows Program Inc ($26k).
- Does John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Louise Taft Semple Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation based?
- John G & Phyllis W Smale Family Foundation is based in OH.
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