Illinois · Private foundation
Smart Family Foundation of Illinois
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 56
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Smart Family Foundation of Illinois funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 65 | $3.8M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $4.0M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $4.1M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $2.5M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $3.2M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $2.6M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $2,295,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $2,133,350 | 8 | 2% |
| Kenyon College | $1,655,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company | $1,334,280 | 8 | 2% |
| Vassar College | $920,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wesleyan University | $825,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $825,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $710,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $530,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $470,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Smart Family Foundation of Illinois supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Feitler Family Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · The Joyce Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Richard and Mary L Gray Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Smart Family Foundation of Illinois with peer funders
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About Smart Family Foundation of Illinois
- How much does Smart Family Foundation of Illinois give?
- Smart Family Foundation of Illinois reported 68 grants totaling $4,005,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Smart Family Foundation of Illinois fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (30%), Health (12%).
- Who are Smart Family Foundation of Illinois's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Johns Hopkins University ($2.3M), Francis W Parker School ($2.1M), Kenyon College ($1.7M).
- Does Smart Family Foundation of Illinois fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Smart Family Foundation of Illinois 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 Smart Family Foundation of Illinois?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Feitler Family Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, The Joyce Foundation.
- Where is Smart Family Foundation of Illinois based?
- Smart Family Foundation of Illinois is based in IL.
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