Connecticut · Private foundation
Lon a Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $394k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Lon a Smith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 18 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $24k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $15k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $22k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $7k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $30k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $23k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $20k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Master's School | $27,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Vernon Community Network | $5,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Renbrook School Inc | $4,750 | 3 | 0% |
| St Matthews House Inc | $3,150 | 4 | 0% |
| Masonic Charity Foundation of CT | $3,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $2,082 | 5 | 0% |
| Miracles in Action Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Middlesex Hospital | $1,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Florence Griswold Museum Inc | $1,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Master's School | $27,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Vernon Community Network | $5,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Renbrook School Inc | $4,750 | 3 | 0% |
| St Matthews House Inc | $3,150 | 4 | 0% |
| Masonic Charity Foundation of CT | $3,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $2,082 | 5 | 0% |
| Miracles in Action Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Middlesex Hospital | $1,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Florence Griswold Museum Inc | $1,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Access Agency Inc | $1,075 | 1 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bromleigh Enterprises Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Christian Schools | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Hampton Ambulance Association Inc | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Cornerstone Foundation Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| The Grace Place Inc | $700 | 2 | n/a |
| Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation Inc | $600 | 6 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Fuse Foundation | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Bikes for Kids Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Hartford Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Artis-Naples Inc | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lon a Smith 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.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Kitchings Family Foundation · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lon a Smith Family Foundation
- How much does Lon a Smith Family Foundation give?
- Lon a Smith Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $24,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lon a Smith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (18%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Lon a Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Master's School ($27k), Vernon Community Network ($6k), Renbrook School Inc ($5k).
- Does Lon a Smith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lon a Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lon a Smith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Kitchings Family Foundation.
- Where is Lon a Smith Family Foundation based?
- Lon a Smith Family Foundation is based in CT.
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