New York · Private foundation
Louise K 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.
- $82k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $638k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Louise K Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% 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 | 47 | $81k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $104k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $75k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $103k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $83k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $73k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $59k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 56 | $61k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concert Artists Guild Inc | $212,610 | 8 | 3% |
| Third Coast Percussion Nfp | $141,870 | 8 | 3% |
| University of Chicago | $47,910 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $30,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Chamber Music America Inc | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chicago Opera Theater | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Cedille Chicago Nfp | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Classical Music Chicago | $2,250 | 8 | 0% |
| American Composers Orchestra Inc | $2,200 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($149k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louise K Smith 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: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Chicago Community Trust · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Elizabeth F Cheney Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Prince Foundation · John R Halligan Charitable Fund
How this is measured
About Louise K Smith Foundation
- How much does Louise K Smith Foundation give?
- Louise K Smith Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $81,630 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Louise K Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (10%), Health (4%).
- Who are Louise K Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Concert Artists Guild Inc ($213k), Third Coast Percussion Nfp ($142k), University of Chicago ($48k).
- Does Louise K Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louise K 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 Louise K Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP, The Chicago Community Trust, The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP.
- Where is Louise K Smith Foundation based?
- Louise K Smith Foundation is based in NY.
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