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Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2021
9%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$28,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 33
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$548k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 9% of the organizations Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
EducationHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$28k100%
FY202122$88k9%
FY202033$88k36%
FY201924$39k8%
FY201824$64k8%
FY201722$54kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$110kArts & Culture$63kEducation$34kPhilanthropy$33kReligion$20kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($257k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWildwood School Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCountry Music Foundation Inc: $19,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFrist Art Museum: $6,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $4,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWalk Bike Nashville Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOrt America Inc: $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreenways for Nashville Inc: $3,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNashville Public Library Foundation: $3,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Public Radio: $2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThistle Farms Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRutgers Preparatory School: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Humane Association Aka Nashville Humane Society: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Equity Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRock Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corp: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family FoundationTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Sandra Schatten Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Vanderbilt University · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Eden Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $28,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (30%), Arts & Culture (17%), Education (9%).
Who are Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wildwood School Inc ($20k), Country Music Foundation Inc ($19k), Nashville Symphony Association ($19k).
Does Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Sandra Schatten Foundation.
Where is Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Leonard J & Ethel H Smith Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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