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Smith Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$593k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$70kHuman Services$37kYouth Development$30kCrime & Legal$25kHousing & Shelter$20kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$5kEducation$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Smith Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Marys Legacy Clinic Inc$35,0002n/a
The Camp Koinonia Foundation Inc$31,50026%
Emerald Youth Foundation$20,00010%
Wesley House Community Center Co$20,00012%
Knoxville Family Justice Center$15,00012%
Helen Ross McNabb Foundation$12,50010%
A Secret Safe Place for Newborns of Tennessee Inc$10,00016%
Southern Flyers Eaa Chapter 1494 Inc$5,00011%
Soar Youth Ministries Inc Thrive Lonsdale$5,00010%
The Muse Knoxville$5,00010%
Random Acts of Flowers$2,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Camp Koinonia Foundation Inc: $31,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetEmerald Youth Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWesley House Community Center Co: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKnoxville Family Justice Center: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHelen Ross McNabb Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Secret Safe Place for Newborns of Tennessee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSouthern Flyers Eaa Chapter 1494 Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSoar Youth Ministries Inc Thrive Lonsdale: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Muse Knoxville: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 10.

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.

Akima Club IncTN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akima Club Inc · Lawson Family Foundation · East Tennessee Foundation · The Melrose Foundation · The Charlie & Moll Anderson Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · Thompson Charitable Foundation · The Chairman Club · Variety of Eastern Tennessee · United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · The Clayton Homes Foundation

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 Smith Family Foundation

How much does Smith Family Foundation give?
Smith Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $176,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Smith Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Smith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: St Marys Legacy Clinic Inc ($35k), The Camp Koinonia Foundation Inc ($32k), Emerald Youth Foundation ($20k).
Does Smith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Smith Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akima Club Inc, Lawson Family Foundation, East Tennessee Foundation.
Where is Smith Family Foundation based?
Smith Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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