· Private foundation
Lon a Smith Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTBROOK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $8,700 |
| HNU METHODIST CHURCH | $7,155 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| VALLEY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| REMBROOK SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $500 |
| EAST HARTFORD AMBULANCE ASSOC | $500 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $400 |
| ENFIELD PROJECT | $250 |
| GRACE PLACE | $200 |
| HEPBURN CULTURE CENTER | $200 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $150 |
| UGS CHRISTMAS FUND | $150 |
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 (FY17–17, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +21% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +149%
Save The Children Federation Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +21%- MHMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL4× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WCWINTONBURY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- FCFIRST CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MIMIRACLES IN ACTION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -22%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 61 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.
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- Who funds MIRACLES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
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- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bromleigh Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lon a Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lon a Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Access Agency Inc: 79% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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