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SMART Life Family 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.

$20k
Granted FY2023
37
Grants FY2023
37
Organizations funded FY2023
95%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$240
Largest grant, FY2023
$2,325
Organizations funded a year
13 to 37
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
13
Total assets, FY2023
$125k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 95% of the organizations SMART Life Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202337$20k95%
FY202213$8kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$6kHuman Services$4kRecreation & Sports$4kReligion$4kHealth$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$965Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
MI
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
SC
LA
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The United States Yoga Federation$3,00023%
Washington and Lee University$1,50010%
Toastmaster International$1,2001n/a
The Family Foundation of Virginia$71410%
Delaware Chester Community School or Dccs$68921%
Harpers Ferry Park Association$60010%
Association of Russian Speaking Theaters$50010%
TEDx Cherry Creek High School$3501n/a
Youth STEAM Outreach$1751n/a
Mercer Island Schools Foundation$12510%
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All grantees of SMART Life Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The United States Yoga Federation$3,00023%
Washington and Lee University$1,50010%
Toastmaster International$1,2001n/a
The Family Foundation of Virginia$71410%
Delaware Chester Community School or Dccs$68921%
Harpers Ferry Park Association$60010%
Association of Russian Speaking Theaters$50010%
TEDx Cherry Creek High School$3501n/a
Youth STEAM Outreach$1751n/a
Mercer Island Schools Foundation$12510%
Rhode Island School of Design$12510%
Church of the Redeemer$801n/a
McLean Bible Church$301n/a

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget SMART Life Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United States Yoga Federation: $3,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Foundation of Virginia: $714 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Chester Community School or Dccs: $689 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHarpers Ferry Park Association: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation of Russian Speaking Theaters: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercer Island Schools Foundation: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island School of Design: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About SMART Life Family Foundation

How much does SMART Life Family Foundation give?
SMART Life Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $20,236 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 37 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does SMART Life Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (5%), Human Services (3%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
Who are SMART Life Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: The United States Yoga Federation ($3k), Washington and Lee University ($2k), Toastmaster International ($1k).
Does SMART Life Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does SMART Life Family 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 SMART Life Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is SMART Life Family Foundation based?
SMART Life Family Foundation is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $59k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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