South Carolina · Private foundation
Smart Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Smart Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 2 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $100k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $107k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $438k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $207k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $155k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $135k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $135k | 45% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Greenville University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shannon Forest Christian School | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $72,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hampton Park Baptist Church Hampton Park Christian School | $51,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Upstate Warrior Solution Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Service Dogs for Veterans | $28,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Cancer Survivors Park Alliance | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Ministries | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Resilient Arrow | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Greenville University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shannon Forest Christian School | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $72,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hampton Park Baptist Church Hampton Park Christian School | $51,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Upstate Warrior Solution Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Service Dogs for Veterans | $28,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Cancer Survivors Park Alliance | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Ministries | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Resilient Arrow | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Freedom Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| First Presbyterian Academy Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vagabond School of the Drama Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Education Partners Greenville County | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Miracle Hill Ministries Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| South Carolina Children's Theatre | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Let There Be Mom Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Shepherds Gate | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($525k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Smart 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: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Kellett Family Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation
How this is measured
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About Smart Family Foundation
- How much does Smart Family Foundation give?
- Smart Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Smart Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Youth Development (30%), Health (9%).
- Who are Smart Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($500k), North Greenville University ($100k), Shannon Forest Christian School ($80k).
- Does Smart Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smart Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smart Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dabo's All in Team Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, United Community Bank Foundation.
- Where is Smart Family Foundation based?
- Smart Family Foundation is based in SC.
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