· Private foundation
Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $199k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $12,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER | $10,000 |
| GREAT TRAIL COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO | $9,000 |
| AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $7,500 |
| EMBRACING FUTURES INC | $6,000 |
| STAN HYWET HALL GARDENS | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CTR | $6,000 |
| AKRON ART MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| HAVEN OF REST MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
89 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 12 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK4× · 2022–2025 · $58k · revenue +28%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +27%
- TMTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CHCHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICALone grant, 2023 · $6k
- OPOPPORTUNITY PARISH ECUMENICAL NEIGHBORHOone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIANone grant, 2023 · $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.
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
To promote business in the tri-county area
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
How this is measured
99 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. 99 of the 132 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 AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK ↗
- Who funds AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Akron Musical Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE AKRON MARATHON CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HALL FOUNDATION INC DBA AKRON CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds THE GRIEFCARE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ART RESOURCES TRANSFORMATIONS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NAMI Summit County ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HUNGER CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Akron History Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Truly Reaching You 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: Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · The Welty Family Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Akron Community Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Gar Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · United Way of Summit and Medina
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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