· Private foundation
Les & Judy Smout Foundation
Its FY2026 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k44 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PASCO & GULF RR | $23,000 |
| MORTON PLANT MEASE HC FDN | $15,000 |
| WESLEY CHAPEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,100 |
| CIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MEDINA | $8,500 |
| CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY | $7,000 |
| SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| TAMPA GEN HOSP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAFETY HARBOR CHAMBER OF COMM FDN | $4,000 |
| SPEAK UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE CLEARWATER CHINESE LANGUAGE SCH | $2,500 |
| CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–26, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +51% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2026, 39 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC5× · 2020–2026 · $32k · revenue +105%
- RLRidge Live Steamers Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +162%
- FRFLORIDA RAILROAD MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CYCOMM YOUTH THEATRE ARTS EDUCone grant, 2024 · $8k
- WWWARRIOR WELLNESS PROGRAM INCone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue -30%
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
As the areas premier no-kill shelter, the humane society of sarasota county engages the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
The sarasota classic car museum (sccm) exists to acquire, preserve and exhibit the evolutionary, dwindling cars of the 20th century. we seek to provide a foundation for scholarly research and learning programs that inspire an interest in…
The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…
Curating the world for all children to explore
To educate the public and promote understanding, enjoyment, and scholarly examination of art through the exhibition of works by salvador dali and artists of similar vision to preserve and expand its collection of art of dali and related…
The fit museum of art, inc. enhances and enriches the quality of life of the community and its visitors with an enduring appreciation of art through exhibitions, collections and educational programs which enlighten and inspire the human…
The organization's mission is to operate and maintain the silver beach carousel and museum for the artistic, educational, and entertainment benefit of all.
The mission of the pennsylvania trolley museum is to preserve and perpetuate its cllection of historic transportation equipment, artifacts and archives and utilize the collection and other resources to provide an unparalleled immersive…
The mariners' museum and park connects people to the world's waters, because through the waters - through our shared maritime heritage - we are connected to one another.
The mission of the henry morrison flagler museum is to preserve and interpret whitehall, henry flagler's legacy, and america's gilded age, in ways that inspire every generation to perpetuate and emulate the traditions and values that have…
Curatorial conservation of objects relating to horse racing industry
How this is measured
47 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. 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 THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ridge Live Steamers Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM LEAP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prescott Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
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: Pinellas Community Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Copperhead Charities Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Les & Judy Smout Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Les & Judy Smout Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boley Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc: 6% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
- Florida Railroad Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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