South Carolina · Private foundation
Shirley Smith Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $674
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,765
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $229k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Shirley Smith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 11 | $13k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $41k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $21k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $24k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $23k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of the Upstate Inc | $14,979 | 6 | 0% |
| The V Foundation | $14,587 | 6 | 0% |
| Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue | $8,087 | 6 | 0% |
| American Brittany Rescue Inc | $7,587 | 5 | 1% |
| Concord Baptist Church | $7,242 | 4 | n/a |
| Lincoln Heritage Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc | $7,144 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Stride Inc | $6,527 | 4 | 0% |
| No Kill Louisville | $5,148 | 4 | 6% |
| First United Methodist Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Episcopal School | $2,250 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of the Upstate Inc | $14,979 | 6 | 0% |
| The V Foundation | $14,587 | 6 | 0% |
| Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue | $8,087 | 6 | 0% |
| American Brittany Rescue Inc | $7,587 | 5 | 1% |
| Concord Baptist Church | $7,242 | 4 | n/a |
| Lincoln Heritage Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc | $7,144 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Stride Inc | $6,527 | 4 | 0% |
| No Kill Louisville | $5,148 | 4 | 6% |
| First United Methodist Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Episcopal School | $2,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Conroe Service League | $800 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Shirley Smith Foundation
- How much does Shirley Smith Foundation give?
- Shirley Smith Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $13,183 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Shirley Smith Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Religion (23%), Education (18%).
- Who are Shirley Smith Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hospice of the Upstate Inc ($15k), The V Foundation ($15k), Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue ($8k).
- Does Shirley Smith Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shirley Smith Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shirley Smith Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Shirley Smith Foundation based?
- Shirley Smith Foundation is based in SC.
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