· Private foundation
Smith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF KNOXVILLE TN INC | $20,000 |
| CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTUS CENTER | $15,000 |
| ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC INC | $15,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| A SECRET SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S LEGACY CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC - TN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| THRIVE (SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES) | $5,000 |
| CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF GREATER KNOXVILLE | $5,000 |
| MUSE KNOXVILLE | $5,000 |
| HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Smith Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 95%.
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Knoxville entrepreneur center was formed for educational and charitable purpose to provide resources and assist entrepreneurs and small business owners in knoxville, tennessee and the surrounding community to transform their business…
To develop and sustain a symphony orchestra of the highest artistic standards and to reach east tennessee audiences of all ages by providing excellence in musical performance and education programs.
We are a private educational facility providing educational services for grades pre-k through 12th grade.
The purpose of the knoxville museum of art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . to this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent…
Primarily to spread the gospel of jesus christ in downtown knoxville, tennessee by serving the community of the greater knoxville area through the provision of services, resources, worship, teaching, fellowship and networking capabilities.
The mission of the knoxville history project is to research and promote the history and culture of knoxville, tennessee. the knoxville history projects (khp) stories, programs, and publications both educate and help residents and visitors…
The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.
To provide no-cost health care to families who have no insurance and do not qualify for the states low income insurance program.
Provide rescue and other community emergency services
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
Public library for the benefit of the town providing library access and services for the community
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER CO ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A SECRET SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN FLYERS EAA CHAPTER 1494 INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR YOUTH MINISTRIES INC THRIVE LONSDALE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSE KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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