South Carolina · Private foundation
Lillian S 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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Lillian S Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 5 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $65k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $68k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $45k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $60k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $57k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Network | $115,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Prisma Health Midlands Foundation F/K/A Palmetto Health Foundation | $89,000 | 4 | 0% |
| South Carolina Philharmonic Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 1% |
| East Cooper Community Outreach | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Oceanside Collegiate Academy | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oliver Gospel Mission | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Trust of South Carolina | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Workman Family Charitable Trust · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Td Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
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About Lillian S Smith Foundation
- How much does Lillian S Smith Foundation give?
- Lillian S Smith Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $45,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lillian S Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (27%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Lillian S Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: South Carolina Network ($115k), Prisma Health Midlands Foundation F/K/A Palmetto Health Foundation ($89k), South Carolina Philharmonic Inc ($53k).
- Does Lillian S Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lillian S Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lillian S Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Workman Family Charitable Trust.
- Where is Lillian S Smith Foundation based?
- Lillian S Smith Foundation is based in SC.
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