Illinois · Private foundation
Smail Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 9
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- 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 Smail Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $91k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $60k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $69k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $70k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $77k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$210kAnimals$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kEmployment$30kRecreation & Sports$18kEducation$13kHuman Services$7kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio Arts Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hooties Rescue Haven | $14,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Denison University | $13,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $7,250 | 3 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($243k), not named here.
About Smail Family Foundation
- How much does Smail Family Foundation give?
- Smail Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $90,606 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Smail Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Animals (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
- Who are Smail Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Radio Arts Foundation ($40k), The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis ($30k), Forest Park Forever Inc ($18k).
- Does Smail Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smail Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Smail Family Foundation based?
- Smail Family Foundation is based in IL.
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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